The deaths of human beings

The deaths of human beings.

In ‘When Does a Human Being Die?’ Schofield et al. present a definition of death focused on the ‘final denouement’ of human beings as biological organisms. Their view is such that the moment of death occurs ‘when the last process in the collection of bodily processes that maintain homoeostasis finally cease[s]’. Whilst this definition avoids certain conceptual problems there are difficulties wi...

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

THE HUMAN USE OF HUl\IAN BEINGS

This is one of the fundamental documents of our time, a period characterized by the concepts of 'information' and 'communica­ tions'. Norbert Wiener, a child prodigy and a great mathematician, coined the term 'cybernetics' to characterize a very general science of 'control and communication in the animal and machine'. It brought together concepts from engineering, the study of the nervous syste...

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...

Gnathostomiasis in Human Beings