UID:
almafu_9958134767502883
Format:
1 online resource (224 pages):
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78374-170-8
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2-8218-7633-5
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1-78374-169-4
Content:
"In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest."--Publisher's website.
Note:
1. Introduction -- 2. Against the Right to Die -- 3. A Right of Self-Termination? -- 4. Beyond Price -- 5. Family History -- 6. Persons in Prospect -- I. The Identity Problem -- II. The Gift of Life -- III. Love and Nonexistence -- 7. Well-Being and Time -- 8. So It Goes -- 9. Dying -- 10. --The Rights to a Life -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78374-168-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78374-167-8
Language:
English
