Defining Death. A Contribution to Metathanalogy

• Authors: Roczen R.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses principles of defining death as well as usefulness of those definitions for medical practice. The practice needs a criterial definition, not metaphysical or existential one. Therefore, such medical definition of death, especially brain death, should deliver specific end-of-life criteria and the way of their credible verification in practice.

Keywords

EN

DEFINING DEATH; END-OF-LIFE CRITERIA

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 2(164)
• Pages: 153-166
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Roczen R.

• R. Roczen, Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89c, 60-568 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA0037915