Refinements in the Organism as a Whole Rationale for Brain Death
Death can be defined as the permanent cessation of the organism as a whole. Although the organism as a whole is a century-old concept, it remains better intuited than analyzed. Recent concepts in theoretical biology including hierarchies of organization, emergent functions, and mereology have inform...
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SAGE Publications Inc.
2019
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