The Moral Status of Persons : : Perspectives on Bioethics / / edited by Gerhold K. Becker.
The advances in molecular biology and genetics, medicine and neurosciences, in ethology and environmental studies have put the concept of the person firmly on the philosophical agenda. Whereas earlier times seemed to have a clear understanding about the moral implications of personhood and its bound...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 96 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial Foreword. Acknowledgments. Gerhold K. BECKER: The Moral Status of Persons: Introduction. PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONHOOD. ONE Ruiping FAN: Can We Have a General Conception of Personhood in Bioethics? TWO Johannes H.C. SUN: Are All Human Beings Persons? THREE Michael QUANTE: Personal Identity as Basis for Autonomy. PART II: EASTERN PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONHOOD. FOUR Chad HANSEN: Why Chinese Thought is Not Individualistic: Answer 1 of n. FIVE Edwin HUI: Jen and Perichoresis: The Confucian and Christian Bases of the Relational Person. SIX Shin OHARA: We-Consciousness and Terminal Patients: Some Biomedical Reflections on Japanese Civil Religion. SEVEN Renzong QIU: Reshaping the Concept of Personhood: A Chinese Perspective. PART III: THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONHOOD. EIGHT Dennis P. McCANN: "Made in the Image and Likeness of God": The Concept of the Person in Catholic Social Teaching and Its Implications for Health Care Policy. NINE Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAF: "The Worth of a Person" - A Speciesist Prejudice? Theological Comments on the Current Controversy over Bioethical Concepts. PART IV: THE BOUNDARIES OF PERSONHOOD IN HEALTH CARE AND RESEARCH. TEN Ruth CHADWICK: Gene Therapy and Personal Identity. ELEVEN Jonathan K.L. CHAN: Human Cloning, Harm, and Personal Identity. TWELVE Derrick K.S. AU: Brain Injury, Brain Degeneration, and Loss of Personhood. THIRTEEN Elizabeth TELFER: Using and Benefitting Animals. About the Contributors. Index.