PHL 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Logical Consequence, Modest Mouse, Principle Of Double Effect

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Summary of conclusions & recommended statute: recent developments in medical treatment necessitate a restatement of the standards traditionally recognized for determining that death has occurred, the such a restatement ought preferably to be a matter of statutory law. In this reading brain dead will be dead. Doubts about the whole-brain-oriented definition: higher-brain-oriented one is dead when there is irreversible loss of all higher" brain functions. Fetal personhood, rights & abortion: what is missing from the discussion, what the father wants, religious position (can be hard b/c there is so many different religions) Margaret oliva little: nowhere in the discussion is a fetus a fetus, analogized to person or tumor , nowhere in the discussion are relationships of intertwinement, enmeshment, occupation explored. Misses fetal geography": not how rights work, not weigh they are limited, my rights extend from the end of my fist to the tip of your nose.

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