Defining personhood : : toward the ethics of quality in clinical care /

Defining personhood : : toward the ethics of quality in clinical care / / Sarah Bishop Merrill.

Many debates in biomedical ethics today involve inconsistencies in defining the key term, person. Both sides of the abortion debate, for instance, beg the question about what constitutes personhood. This book explores the arguments concerning definitions of personhood in the history of modern philos...

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Superior document:Value inquiry book series
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Merrill, Sarah Bishop,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Value inquiry book series.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • ONE Approaches to Personhood
  • 1 Defining Person
  • 2 Arguments and Methods
  • 3 Problems, Puzzles, and Pitfalls in Uses of Person
  • 4 The Moral and the Metaphysical Mingled
  • 5 Locke on Person
  • 6 Rousseau
  • 7 Kant
  • 8 Historical Summary
  • 8 Defining Personhood in Biomedical Ethics
  • 10
  • How Is Person Defined? From Vagueness to Clarity in Normative Terminology
  • 11 Personhood and Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
  • 12 Inventory of the Biomedical Ethics Literature
  • TWO Distinctive Features of Person and Quality of Clinical Care
  • 1 Introduction: Methodology and Hypotheses
  • 2 Definition by Dialogue
  • 3 The Questionnaires and the Interviewing Process
  • 4 The Adjectival Approach to Terms Related to Personhood
  • 5 Subject Response
  • 6 The Interviewing Process
  • 7 Three Hypotheses and the Fourth: Minimalism and Maximalism
  • 8 Consensus on the Variables
  • 8 Significance
  • 10
  • The Features
  • 11 Features Not Included
  • THREE A Theoretical Framework for Interpreting the Data
  • 1 Distinctive Features: A Conceptual Model from Linguistics
  • 2 Findings
  • 3 Implications for Quality of Care
  • 4 Quality of Care Defined
  • FOUR Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Policy
  • 1 Person as an Essentially Contested Concept
  • 2 Peirce, Gallie, Signs, and Consensus
  • 3 Why Is This Theory Practical? 4 Political Abuses of Conditions of Personhood
  • 5 Personhood in Medical Education
  • 6 Last Thoughts about Sufficient Conditions
  • 7 The Final Defense
  • 8 Implications for Public Policy
  • 8 Implications for Moral Theory
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix I Interview Scripts and Questionnaires
  • Appendix II Quality Assessment Charts
  • About the Author
  • Index.

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