Defining the beginning and end of life
Subtitle: readings on personal identity and bioethics
By: edited by John P. Lizza
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780801893360; 9780801893377
Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Death; Collected Works; Self; Personhood; Power over Life and death; Beginning of Human Life; Medical ethics; Medical Philosophy; Identity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Selections from the Phaedo / Plato; title: Selections from Meditations on first philosophy / Rene Descartes; title: Selections from Personal identity : the dualist theory / Richard Swinburne; title: Selections from Summa theologiae / St. Thomas Aquinas; title: Terra es animata : on having a life / Gilbert Meilaender; title: An argument for animalism / Eric T. Olson; title: Selection from An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke; title: The unimportance of identity / Derek Parfit; title: Persons / P.F. Strawson; title: Real selves : persons as a substantial kind / E.J. Lowe; title: The ontological status of persons / Lynne Rudder Baker; title: Selections from part III of Mind, self, and society from the standpoint of a social behaviorist / G.H. Mead; title: The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man / Clifford Geertz; title: Selection from Personal being / Rom Harre; title: Selection from Dementia reconsidered : the person comes first / Tom Kitwood; title: Freedom of the will and the concept of a person / Harry G. Frankfurt; title: Jewish perspectives on abortion / Aaron L. Mackler; title: When do people begin? / Germain Grisez; title: Thomism and the beginning of personhood / Jason T. Eberl; title: Individuals, humans, and persons : the issue of moral status / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer; title: On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren; title: Ethics and embryos / Nicola Poplawski and Grant Gillett; title: When does a person begin? / Lynne Rudder Baker; title: The biophilosophical basis of whole-brain death / James L. Bernat; title: The definition of death in Jewish law / Fred Rosner; title: An unfounded diagnosis : revisiting the medical and metaphysical justifications of "brain death" / David A. Jones; title: St. Thomas on the beginning and ending of human life / William A. Wallace; title: The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death / Robert M. Veatch; title: Against the stream : comments on the definition and redefinition of death / Hans Jonas; title: Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green and Daniel Wikler; title: On the definition of death / John P. Lizza; title: Selection from Controversies in the determination of death : a white paper / President's Council on Bioethics.