Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading
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Description: A far-seeing but technical paper by James J. Hughes, prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death. Date unclear, but 1996 or later. Includes discussion of cryonics and nanotechnology.
Brain Death and Technological Change Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading Havana Cuba * February 27-March 1, 1995 The death at issue in the brain death debate is not an empiric reality, but a social category, "social death." It is a question of which bodies we are comfortable using and disposing of in certain ways, and not comfortable giving medicine or food as if they were "alive." Until recently both mind and body stopped functioning at the same time, and this "death" and "social death" were generally seen as one phenomenon. There were important exceptions, however, in many cultures where particular diseases and disabilities earned a social death definition before the physical death had occurred.
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| Page title: | Brain Death and Technological Change |
| Keywords: | hughes, coma, bioethics, medical ethics, euthanasia, brain death, brain injury, spinal injury, death, dying, end of life, mercy killing, anencephaly, anencephalic, neurons, neural, neurology, assisted, organs, hearts, livers, organ transplantation, ethics, cuba, machado, youngner, PVS, personhood, vegetative state, unconsciousness, international, network, association |
| Description: | As we learn to repair brain injuries, we will no longer be able to use the traditional brain death definitions. |
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| Date | Creation Date: 02-jul-1996 Expiration Date: 01-jul-2016 |