<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The study aims to analyse the clinical proceedings in pregnant women diagnosed with brain death. Apart from the diagnostic premises and the patient’s rights, the ontological status of the foetus proves to be a severe problem. In reference to the principles of zeroth-order logic, the assumption of potential used by personalists is not a tautology.</p></abstract>

The study aims to analyse the clinical proceedings in pregnant women diagnosed with brain death. Apart from the diagnostic premises and the patient’s rights, the ontological status of the foetus proves to be a severe problem. In reference to the principles of zeroth-order logic, the assumption of potential used by personalists is not a tautology.

Status of Baby Born to Brain-dead Mother: Ethical and Logical Issues

Department of Social Sciences and the Humanities

Division of Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The study aims to analyse the clinical proceedings in pregnant women diagnosed with brain death. Apart from the diagnostic premises and the patient’s rights,...

Status of Baby Born to Brain-dead Mother: Ethical and Logical Issues

Pubblicato online: 13 feb 2020

Pagine: 49 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2019-0044

© 2019 Aleksandra Bendowska et al., published by Sciendo

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