Ni vivo ni muerto, sino todo lo contrario. reflexiones sobre la muerte cerebral
[EN] Determining the precise moment of death has always been a difficult problem. Traditional and contemporary attempts to justify legally accepted standards for death determination have been based on social interests —particularly related, more recently, to organ transplantation policies. Legally a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/192451 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/192451 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Organ transplantation Death determination Pluralism Definition of death Brain death Definición de la muerte Muerte cerebral Bioethics Bioética Determinación de la muerte Trasplantes de órganos Gradualismo Gradualism Pluralismo |
| Sumario: | [EN] Determining the precise moment of death has always been a difficult problem. Traditional and contemporary attempts to justify legally accepted standards for death determination have been based on social interests —particularly related, more recently, to organ transplantation policies. Legally accepted criteria for declaring death still lack both conceptual and scientific support. In this context of absence of consensus about the exact location of the boundary between life and death, this article aims to address the following issues: How can we define death? Is the task of determining death strictly based on facts, or do values also play a role? Should brain death be equated to death? What role should bioethics play in the debates related to death determination and organ procurement? |
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