PHIL 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brainstem, Informed Consent, Brain Death
20 Feb 2017
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Full essay structure, 2 questions and you choose from one. Mention all their arguments and fight for them with essay structure (prev. notes from seminar) 2 possible definitions: death as irreversible cessation of organismic functioning, death as the irreversible loss of person hood. Why did we need a new definition: new life sustaining technology, medical costs, organ transplantation. Problems for higher brain death: only relevant to our species and causes pvs persistent vegetative state. The brain: higher brain cerebrum and cerebellum, brainstem or lower brain medulla and reticular activation system. Seminary week 6 tues, oct. 18, 2016. Will ask for your own opinion based on text not forced to support or refute someone else"s position. Need to get your arguments straight & know especially the last few readings. Describe position of author you"re defending, and have a rebuttal and then a rebuttal on that. Readings 2nd is more relevant to midterm.
