This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the
philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical …

Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover …

What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is"
dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions …

This paper provides a new rationale for equating brain death with the death of the human
organism, in light of well-known criticisms made by Alan D Shewmon, Franklin Miller and …

One of the points where there is a significant, long-lasting intersection of the interests of
many philosophers with the interests of many people of all kinds and conditions concerns …

This anthology of major classical and contemporary views on key ethical aspects of death
and dying is the only philosophically sophisticated, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date …

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TO APPRECIATE THE chapters included in this volume, one cannot simply attend to their
arguments. One must place them within the framework of our controversies, with our failure …

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to
the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics …

This paper discusses how alternative concepts of personhood affect the definition of death. I
argue that parties in the debate over the definition of death have employed different …