ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Reductionism, Harm Reduction, Social Psychiatry
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Margaret lock: displacing suffering - the reconstruction of death in n. a. and japan. First heart transplant in south africa (dr. barnard) Harvard med school committee on brain death. A uniform determination of death act: 1) whole-brain death (irreversible ) Religion - japan considers respect of the deceased body to be paramount. Why are there such different responses to the brain-death definition of death in jp and. Clearly, transplant medicine has saved a lot of lives, but under which circumstances. Whole brain death : protection of doctors (from litigation, harvesting organs for transplant medicine (become routine) Dying must never be confused with death (p. 217) Death can be measured and this can be replicated. Dying process (brain death cannot confirm death = unnatural") If brain-death = death eugenics slippery slope (mentally disabled, marginalized, etc. So then, how can we make sense of near-death-experiences or people with. How does this debate affect the way we choose to become.
