Description
Book SynopsisIt will engage bioethicists and philosophers as well as inform policy and law regarding issues at the beginning and end of life.
Table of ContentsPreface
List of Authors
Index
Part I: Theories of Persons
Chapter 1. Selections from the Phaedo
Chapter 2. Selections from Meditations on First Philosophy
Chapter 3. Selections from "Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory"
Chapter 4. Selections from Summa Theologiae
Chapter 5. Terra es animata: On Having a Life
Chapter 6. An Argument for Animalism
Chapter 7. Selection from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Chapter 8. The Unimportance of Identity
Chapter 9. Persons
Chapter 10. Real Selves: Persons as a Substantial Kind
Chapter 11. The Ontological Status of Persons
Chapter 12. Selections from Part III of Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
Chapter 13. The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man
Chapter 14. Selection from Personal Being
Chapter 15. Selection from Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First
Chapter 16. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
Part II: Persons at the Beginning of Life
Chapter 17. Jewish Perspectives on Abortion
Chapter 18. When Do People Begin?
Chapter 19. Thomism and the Beginning of Personhood
Chapter 20. Individuals, Humans, and Persons: The Issue of Moral Status
Chapter 21. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Chapter 22. Ethics and Embryos
Chapter 23. When Does a Person Begin?
Part III: Persons at the End of Life
Chapter 24. The Biophilosophical Basis of Whole- Brain Death
Chapter 25. The Definition of Death in Jewish Law
Chapter 26. An Unfounded Diagnosis: Revisiting the Medical and Metaphysical Justifications of "Brain Death"
Chapter 27. St. Thomas on the Beginning and Ending of Human Life
Chapter 28. The Impending Collapse of the Whole- Brain Definition of Death
Chapter 29. Against the Stream: Comments on the Definition and Redefinition of Death
Chapter 30. Brain Death and Personal Identity
Chapter 31. On the Defi nition of Death
Chapter 32. Selection from Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper
Index
