Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Traumatic Brain Injury, Dementia, Ct Scan
10 Apr 2017
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No office hours thursday, march 30 and thursday, april 6. Case analysis 2 due on wednesday, april 5. 2 case analyses (1 case from each half of the course) a. iii. 1. a. iii. 2. a. iii. 3. a. iii. 4. from the textbook not repetition for ones you"ve done pick 1. 4-5 questions (not identical to the questions in textbook) Argues that people who permanently lose consciousness ought to be considered dead. For all practical purposes he is a dead dog. Doing all this would do no good for fido . Now imagine instead of fido the dog, it is the neighbor"s son bobby. Is this treatment any more rational for a child than a dog: he can do nothing a child normally can do, he cannot experience any benefit, for all practical purposes, he is a dead child. Result of anoxic or traumatic brain injury. Anoxia: kills oxygen sensitive neocortical neurons, preserving lower brain neurons. Trauma: disrupts connections w/i the brain (diffuse axonal injury)
