Author
D. Alan Shewmon
D. Alan Shewmon, MD is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, and Chief of the Department of Neurology at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA.
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
1 Article
You Only Die Once: Why Brain Death is Not the Death of a Human Being; A Reply to Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
Appears in Death · Fall 2012 · Vol. 39, No. 3
"[The] accusation that I am in conflict with Church teaching about death relies . . . not only on a mischaracterization of my position, but also on a mischaracterization of Church teaching itself. In point of fact, the Magisterium does not formally oblige us to hold that the brain is the master organ of somatic integration, or that its death is therefore the death of the human being as such. Nor does the hylemorphism espoused by Boethius, Aquinas, and the Council of Vienne entail any such claim."