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Przeszczep mózgu a podmiotowość prawna człowieka
Brain transplantation and legal subjectivity of a person

Author(s): Jędrzej Skrzypczak
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Naczelna Izba Lekarska
Keywords: brain transplantation

Summary/Abstract: Revolutionary progress in medical technology will certainly influence the destiny of individual persons. It will also result in broader social, political as well as ethical and legal consequences. One of the fundamental issues involved is, for example, a possibility of conscious change of human nature and the logical question: who is hence the carrier of rights? The article focuses on this theme, however far in the future a possibility for a brain transplantation may appear. The term itself is open to question. Are we, as a matter of fact, to deal with a brain transplant or rather its whole environment/“packaging”?

  • Issue Year: 3/2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 111-119
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish