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    The Advance of Technoscience and the Problem of Death Determination
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (3): 306-331. 2020.
    Death determination has long been a topic of intensive technoscientific and medical involvement. Due to advances in twentieth-century medical technology, the distinction between life and death has become less evident. Ambiguities appear when we start to use life-support technologies in order to save lives, bringing about “tragic artifacts” such as brain death and persistent vegetative state. In this paper we ask how this technoscientific and medical involvement shapes our understanding of death.…Read more
  •  8
    The Advance of Technoscience and the Problem of Death Determination
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (3): 306-331. 2020.
    Death determination has long been a topic of intensive technoscientific and medical involvement. Due to advances in twentieth-century medical technology, the distinction between life and death has become less evident. Ambiguities appear when we start to use life-support technologies in order to save lives, bringing about “tragic artifacts” such as brain death and persistent vegetative state. In this paper we ask how this technoscientific and medical involvement shapes our understanding of death.…Read more