Genoa : " L’Osservatore Romano tar opp igjen spørsmålet om Kirken kan akseptere hjernedød-kriteriet"
on, the pronouncements of the hierarchy on this question have been less clear-cut than they appear. This ambiguity of the Church is illustrated in an entire chapter of a book published recently in Italy: Brain death and organ transplant. A question of legal ethics, published by Morcelliana in Brescia. The author is Paolo Becchi, professor of the philosophy of law at the universities of Genoa and Luzern, and a pupil of a Jewish thinker who dedicated concerned reflections to the question of the end of life, Hans Jonas. According to Jonas, the new definition of death established by the Harvard report was not motivated by any real scientific advancement, but rather by interests, by the need for organs for transplants.
