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Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State
In Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics. Malden, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 286–298 (1998)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Concept of Brain Death and its Appeal A Critique of Brain Death What Kind of Entity Are We? Persistent Vegetative State References Further Reading.Author's Profile
death, brain death and persistent vegetative state concept of brain death and its appeal brain death ‐ irreversible cessation of functioning in brain as a whole death as cessation of processes constitutive of biological life death as ceasing to exist of a conscious being last brain function to survive ‐ being consciousness dicephalic twinning ‐ radically incomplete form of conjoined twinning persistent vegetative state
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