|
Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
|
Buy Now
What Is a Person? (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
Loot Price: R3,004
Discovery Miles 30 040
|
|
|
What Is a Person? (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
The idea for an anthology on personhood grew out of two things,
viz., the work I did with Martin Benjamin during the Summer of 1982
at Michigan State University on the question, What is a person?,
and the amount of time, effort, and expense required for serious
research on the topic itself. The former experience taught me the
importance of, among other things, attempting to get clear about
what we are to mean by 'person, ' while the latter experience
suggested a possible course of action whereby getting clear might
be made more manage able simply by having relatively convenient
access to some of the most insightful and stimulating writings on
the topic. The problems of personhood addressed in this book are
central to issues in ethics ranging from the treatment or
termination of infants with birth defects to the question whether
there can be rational suicide. But before questions on such issues
as the morality of abortion, genetic engineering, infanticide, and
so on, can be settled, the prob lems of personhood must be
clarified and analyzed. Hence What Is a Person? has as its primary
theme the examination of various proposed conditions of
personhood."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
