{"id":5241,"date":"2023-06-30T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2023-06-30T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:36:19","slug":"inconsistency-between-the-circulatory-and-the-brain-criteria-of-death-in-the-uniform-determination-of-death-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/30\/inconsistency-between-the-circulatory-and-the-brain-criteria-of-death-in-the-uniform-determination-of-death-act\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abInconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nuestro compa\u00f1ero Alberto Molina (IESA-CSIC\/ FiloLab\/ INEDyTO) ha publicado junto a James L. Bernat (Giesel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College) y Anne Dave Alle (The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University) el art\u00edculo \u00abInconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act\u00bb en la revista The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine<\/em>, 2023 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jmp\/jhad029). En este art\u00edculo se exploran las inconsistencias de la Ley de Determinaci\u00f3n Uniforme de la Muerte (UDDA) que establece la muerte en base a dos criterios: o por la cesaci\u00f3n irreversible de las funciones circulatorias y respiratorias, o por la cesaci\u00f3n de las funciones de todo el cerebro, incluyendo el tronco encef\u00e1lico. En el art\u00edculo se debate la interpretaci\u00f3n de ese \u00abcese de funciones\u00bb, que admite diferentes lecturas y provoca inconsistencias en la aplicaci\u00f3n de la UDDA. A continuaci\u00f3n compartimos el abstract del art\u00edculo en ingl\u00e9s y el acceso al texto completo.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/p>\n

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The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) provides that \u201can individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead.\u201d We show that the UDDA contains two conflicting interpretations of the phrase \u201ccessation of functions.\u201d By one interpretation, what matters for the determination of death is the cessation of spontaneous functions only, regardless of their generation by artificial means. By the other, what matters is the cessation of both spontaneous and artificially supported functions. Because each UDDA criterion uses a different interpretation, the law is conceptually inconsistent. A single consistent interpretation would lead to the conclusion that conscious individuals whose respiratory and circulatory functions are artificially supported are actually dead, or that individuals whose brain is entirely and irreversibly destroyed may be alive. We explore solutions to mitigate the inconsistency.<\/p>\n

Acceso al texto completo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Nuestro compa\u00f1ero Alberto Molina (IESA-CSIC\/ FiloLab\/ INEDyTO) ha publicado junto a James L. Bernat (Giesel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College) y Anne Dave Alle (The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University) el art\u00edculo \u00abInconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act\u00bb en la revista The Journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2218,21],"tags":[2292,2270,3070,3068,3066],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}