Original Articles
Vol. 42 No. 5 (1993)
The philosophical and epistemological problem of cerebral death
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Published: 31 October 1993
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The study starts with the observation of the divergence between two ways of understanding "cerebral death"; on one hand it is considered a new, more accurate and scientifically better definition of the death of the person; on the other hand a method for establishing the state of death of an individual. The author therefore analyses the two perspectives of death: the metaphisical and the biological. The object and the limits of the problem regarding the diagnosis of death: are then defined and the article concludes with an attempt to clarify some misunderstandings about this delicate question.
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The philosophical and epistemological problem of cerebral death. (1993). Medicina E Morale, 42(5), 889-902. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.1993.1039