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Author McMahan, Jeff.

Title The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life / by Jeff McMahan
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 540 pages)
Series Oxford ethics series
Oxford ethics series.
Contents 1. IDENTITY: Preliminaries -- The soul -- Are we human organisms? -- The psychological account -- The embodied mind account -- 2. DEATH: Preliminaries -- The problem of comparison -- The metaphysical problem -- The problem of overdetermination -- Overall lifelong fortune -- The death of fetuses and infants -- A paradox -- 3. KILLING: The wrongness of killing and the badness of death -- Animals and severely cognitively impaired human beings -- Equality and respect -- 4. BEGINNINGS: Early abortion -- Late abortion -- Prenatal harm -- Is a later abortion worse? -- Time-relative interests and adaptation -- Potential -- The sanctity of human life -- Infanticide -- Abortion as the denial of life support -- Abortion and self-defense -- 5. ENDINGS: When do we die, or cease to exist? -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- The withering away of the self
Summary Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Murder -- Moral and ethical aspects
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Killing of older people -- Moral and ethical aspects
Killing of the mentally ill -- Moral and ethical aspects
Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Euthanasia -- ethics
Abortion, Induced -- ethics
Attitude to Death
Embryo Research
Patient Rights
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Death -- Psychological aspects
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects
Doden.
Ethische aspecten.
Medische ethiek.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198024156
0198024150
1423757645
9781423757641
0195079981
9780195079982
9780199833443
0199833443