Human capacities and moral status
By: by Russell DiSilvestro
Series: Philosophy and medicine -- v. 108; Philosophy and medicine -- v. 108.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789048185368; 9789048185375
Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Brain damage; Fetus; Morals; Personhood; Patients; Genetic disorders; Chronic Brain Damage; Aptitude; Medical Genetics; Medical ethics; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: You are not what you think: capacities, human organisms, and persons; title: Anything you can do, I can do also: humans, our capacities, and the powers we share; title: Only game in town: why capacities must matter morally; title: Little people: higher-order capacities and the argument from potential; title: Not just damaged goods: higher-order capacities and the argument from marginal cases; title: Old objections and new directions: capacities and moral status at the very borders of human life.