Volume 40, Issue 5 | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

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Volume 40, Issue 5

October 2019

Special Issue: Brain Death—New Questions and Fresh Perspectives

Issue Editor:

Farr Curlin

7 articles in this issue

Brain death: new questions and fresh perspectives
Farr Curlin
EditorialNotes 15 November 2019 Pages: 355 - 358
Death, unity, and the brain
David S. Oderberg
OriginalPaper Open access 03 April 2019 Pages: 359 - 379
Controversies in defining death: a case for choice
Robert M. Veatch
OriginalPaper 15 November 2019 Pages: 381 - 401
Why psychological accounts of personal identity can accept a brain death criterion and biological definition of death
David B. Hershenov
OriginalPaper 19 November 2019 Pages: 403 - 418
When is somebody just some body? Ethics as first philosophy and the brain death debate
Jeffrey P. Bishop
OriginalPaper 16 November 2019 Pages: 419 - 436
The human organism is not a conductorless orchestra: a defense of brain death as true biological death
Melissa Moschella
OriginalPaper 28 September 2019 Pages: 437 - 453
Whole-brain death and integration: realigning the ontological concept with clinical diagnostic tests
Daniel P. Sulmasy
OriginalPaper 06 November 2019 Pages: 455 - 481