Title

Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making

Authors

Jeremy Weissman, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2022

Publication Title

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

ISSN

0360-5310

Volume

47

Issue/No.

3

First Page

331

Last Page

344

Abstract

Depending on our mode of reasoning—moral, prudential, instrumental, empirical, dialectical, and so on—we may come to vastly different conclusions on the nature of death and the appropriate orientation toward matters such as euthanasia or procuring organs from brain-dead patients. These differing orientations have resulted in some of the most enduring conflicts in biomedical decision-making with roots in the earliest strands of philosophical discourse. Through continually grappling with questions over matters of death, we continually step closer to clarity, even if certainty on these matters remains necessarily as elusive as death itself.

NSUWorks Citation

Weissman, J. (2022). Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, 47 (3), 331-344. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhac009

ORCID ID

0000-0001-6827-9405

DOI

10.1093/jmp/jhac009