Jacek Maria Norkowski

Brain death and brain-stem death: useful fiction with a purpose

Interdisciplinary study of the neurological criteria for death

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Produktbeschreibung

After having read the work of Fr. Norkowski "Brain death and brain-stem death: useful fiction with a purpose." am impressed with the thoroughness of his extensive background research, the depth, and correctness of his medical science, and the soundness of his logic. He presents the conflicting sides of the various controversies with fairness and objectivity, and his own conclusions are well reasoned. The criterion for death remains an open topic in the Church. Pope John Paul II, in his 2000 address to the Transplantation Society, based on the medical information available to him at the time, declared that "the criterion adopted in more recent times for ascertaining the fact of death, namely the complete and irreversible cessation of all brain activity, if rigorously applied, does not seem to conflict with the essential elements of a sound anthropology." His words "does not seem to conflict" were clearly carefully chosen so as to avoid creating an impression of a dogmatic assertion of the neurological criterion; on the contrary, they imply an openness to the possibility that further medical information might call for a re-evaluation of the neurological criterion. · D. Alan Shewmon

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Editorial Académica Española
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9786139022236
• ISBN-10: 6139022231
• Artikelnr.: 54409566

Autorenporträt

Biography of the author. Father Jacek Maria Norkowski OP, MD PhD, was born on 18. July 1957 in Gosty¿, a little town in Poland. After completing high school in 1976 he began studies in medical university in Poznä and in 1982 he receiving the diploma of medical doctor. Just after having finished medical studies, he joined the Polish Province