PHIL 1165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Xenotransplantation, Euthanasia, Leon Kass
10 Nov 2016
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Moral and social problems in healthcare: organ donation, overview i. Individuals have the right to decide what is done with their organs iii. Policy ams: points of controversy, moral permissibility, dead donor rule, donor con d, allocation of sacred organs. The reticent: embodied existence, willard gaylin i. Harvesting the dead: gilbert meilander i. ii. Leon kass: life, liberty, and defense of. Do we own our body: position of the catholic church. In support of organ onin a: the good man is the good of the whole person, not only his bodily integrity vii. Organ donation: decreased donors, sudden deaths : how to go about a situation without the consent of an adult, harvard brain death vs circulatory//respiratory criteria, clinics//events i. ii. Pittsburg protocol (more aggressive than cc: expanding the definition of death i. ii. iii. Robert veatch : loss of high cortical function.
