
Piotr Grzegorz NowakJagiellonian University | UJ · Institute of Philosophy
Piotr Grzegorz Nowak
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In 2017, Michael Nair-Collins formulated his Transitivity Argument which claimed that brain-dead patients are alive according to a concept that defines death in terms of the loss of moral status. This article challenges Nair-Collins’ view in three steps. First, I elaborate on the concept of moral status, claiming that to understand this notion appr...
According to the mainstream bioethical stance, death constitutes the termination of an organism. This essay argues that such an understanding of death is inappropriate in the usual context of determining death, since it also has a social bearing. There are two reasons to justify this argument. First, the mainstream bioethical definition generates a...
Poniższy tekst jest głosem w dyskusji wokół normatywnych problemów innowacyjnych terapii. Odnosi się on szczególnie do znaczenia kategorii innowacyjności, w tym numerze omawianej również w artykule Tomasza Rzepińskiego „Lecznicze produkty terapii zaawansowanej jako wytwory innowacyjnych biotechnologii”.
The mainstream concept of death-the biological one-identifies death with the cessation of an organism. In this article, I challenge the mainstream position, showing that there is no single well-established concept of an organism and no universal concept of death in biological terms. Moreover, some of the biological views on death, if applied in the...
According to the mainstream position in the bioethical definition of death debate, death is to be equated with the cessation of an organism. Given such a perspective, some bioethicists uphold the position that brain-dead patients are dead, while others claim that they are alive. Regardless of the specific opinion on the status of brain-dead patient...
The present paper constitutes an introduction to a special issue of Diametros devoted to Setting Health-Care Priorities. What Ethical Theories Tell Us by Torbjörn Tännsjö. The book in question states that there are three moral theories which have valid implications in the field of the distribution of medical resources in a healthcare system: utilit...
While agreeing with the main conclusion of Dominic Wilkinson and colleagues (Wilkinson, Butcherine, and Savulescu 2019), namely, that there is no moral difference between treatment withholding and withdrawal as such, we wish to criticize their approach on the basis
that it treats the widespread acceptance of withdrawal aversion (WA) as a cognitive...
Singer claims that there are two ways of challenging the fact that brain-dead patients, from whom organs are usually retrieved, are in fact biologically alive. By means of the first, the so called dead donor rule may be abandoned, opening the way to lethal organ donation. In the second, it might be posited that terms such as “life” and “death” do n...
DONATION AFTER CIRCULATORY DETERMINATION OF DEATH.
ABOUT THE PRECEDENCE OF NEUROLOGICAL CRITERION OF DEATH
OVER CIRCULATORY CRITERION – PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
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This two-part article concerns with bioethical issues associated with organ donation
after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). Part 2 is devoted to philosophical
problems. I anal...
DONATION AFTER CIRCULATORY DETERMINATION OF DEATH.
ABOUT THE PRECEDENCE OF NEUROLOGICAL CRITERION OF DEATH
OVER CIRCULATORY CRITERION – REGULATORY ISSUES
This two-part article concerns with bioethical issues associated with organ donation
after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). Part 1 is devoted to legal and
regulatory matters. Here I pro...
Biomedical sciences cannot answer the question who should be saved from death if not everyone can be. This is an ethical issue. However, we face exactly this question when deliberating on the criteria for organ allocation. The main aim of this article is to formulate a pluralistic theory of just distribution of organs, which incorporates the tenets...
p>In the article I argue for replacing the opt-out system of organ donation, currently applied in Poland, with the Active Donor Registration system (ADR). The basic idea of the ADR system is to send a special form to all adult citizens, which would give them an opportunity to consent or dissent to the removal of organs, or to delegate their decisio...
In the article I justify the acceptability of ex vivo transplantation and I provide the ethical evaluation of trafficking in human organs from the Kantian perspective. Firstly, I refer to passages of Kant's works, where he explicitly states that depriving oneself of one’s body parts for other purposes than self-preservation is not permitted. I expl...
The article provides a critical overview of the Polish bioethics literature concerning the shortage of organs for transplantation. Problems related to this issue bear, to a considerable degree, on the attempt to answer the question how to increase the number of organs available in ethically acceptable ways. Polish authors have focused, in this resp...