Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics

(ed.)
Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press (2009)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

It will engage bioethicists and philosophers as well as inform policy and law regarding issues at the beginning and end of life.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Call number

R724.D446 2009

ISBN(s)

9780801893360   0801893372

Other Versions

No versions found

View all bargains

Buy this book

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,174

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Chapters

Against the stream : comments on the definition and redefinition of death.Hans Jonas
An argument for animalism.Eric T. Olson
An argument for animalism.Eric T. Olson
An unfounded diagnosis : revisiting the medical and metaphysical justifications of "brain death".David A. Jones
Brain death and personal identity.Michael B. Green & Daniel Wikler
Ethics and embryos.Nicola Poplawski & Grant Gillett
Freedom of the will and the concept of a person.Harry G. Frankfurt
Individuals, humans, and persons : the issue of moral status.Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer
Jewish perspectives on abortion.Aaron L. Mackler
On the definition of death.John P. Lizza
On the moral and legal status of abortion.Mary Anne Warren
Persons.P. F. Strawson
Real selves : persons as a substantial kind.E. J. Lowe
Selection from An essay concerning human understanding.John Locke
Selection from Controversies in the determination of death : a white paper.President'S. Council on Bioethics
Selection from Dementia reconsidered : the person comes first.Tom Kitwood
Selection from Personal being.Rom Harre
Selections from Meditations on first philosophy.Rene Descartes
Selections from Personal identity : the dualist theory.Richard Swinburne
Selections from Summa theologiae.St Thomas Aquinas
Selections from part III of Mind, self, and society from the standpoint of a social behaviorist.G. H. Mead
Selections from the Phaedo. Plato
St. Thomas on the beginning and ending of human life.William A. Wallace
The biophilosophical basis of whole-brain death.James L. Bernat
The definition of death in Jewish law.Fred Rosner
The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man.Clifford Geertz
The ontological status of persons.Lynne Rudder Baker
The unimportance of identity.Derek Parfit
Thomism and the beginning of personhood.Jason T. Eberl
When does a person begin?Lynne Rudder Baker
Freedom of the will and the concept of a person.  (pages 5-20)Harry G. Frankfurt
The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death.  (pages 18-24)Robert M. Veatch
Terra es animata : on having a life.  (pages 25-32)Gilbert Meilaender
When does a person begin?  (pages 25-48)Lynne Rudder Baker
When do people begin?  (pages 27-47)Germain Grisez
Ethics and embryos.  (pages 62-69)N. Poplawski & G. Gillett
Real selves: Persons as a substantial kind.  (pages 87-107)E. J. Lowe
Brain death and personal identity.  (pages 105 - 133)Michael B. Green & Daniel Wikler
The biophilosophical basis of whole-brain death.  (pages 324-42)James L. Bernat
The ontological status of persons.  (pages 370-388)Lynne Rudder Baker

Similar books and articles

The definition of death in Jewish law.Fred Rosner - 2009 - In John P. Lizza (ed.), Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.
On the definition of death.John P. Lizza - 2009 - In Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.
An unfounded diagnosis : revisiting the medical and metaphysical justifications of "brain death".David A. Jones - 2009 - In John P. Lizza (ed.), Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Against the stream : comments on the definition and redefinition of death.Hans Jonas - 2009 - In John P. Lizza (ed.), Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.
St. Thomas on the beginning and ending of human life.William A. Wallace - 2009 - In John P. Lizza (ed.), Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-08-26

Downloads
84 (#250,231)

6 months
15 (#209,898)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

John Lizza
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Citations of this work

The Organism as a Whole in an Analysis of Death.Andrew P. Huang & James L. Bernat - 2019 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 44 (6):712-731.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references