What is the True Death of a Human Being?
14th October: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm BST
The debate regarding the validity of the use of neurological criteria to determine death – so-called “brain death” – has been central to the field of bioethics since its inception. At the root of this debate are several philosophical claims regarding the definition of human personhood and criterion of personal identity, concepts such as “organism as a whole” and “irreversibility,” and whether death should be understood as a strictly biological or a partially socially constructed fact. The brain death debate has been re-energized by recent cases involving apparent post-brain death survival, calls to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act, and the development of a novel means of organ procurement known as normothermic regional perfusion following circulatory determination of death. This presentation revisits the arguments for and against brain death, defending not only the conceptual validity of brain death, but also its marking the true death of a human being.
This is the first lecture in a series delivered by the Aquinas Institute visiting fellow Professor Jason Eberl, Saint Louis University.
Dr Michael Wee will respond.
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Venue: Blackfriars Hall -
St Giles
Oxford,
OX1 3LY
United Kingdom
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Aquinas Institute
aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk