| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) |
| Series |
Philosophy and medicine, 0376-7418 ; 108 |
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Philosophy and medicine ; 108.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 You Are Not What You Think: Capacities, Human Organisms, and Persons; Chapter 2 Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Also: Humans, Our Capacities, and the Powers We Share; Chapter 3 The Only Game in Town: Why Capacities Must Matter Morally; Chapter 4 Little People: Higher-Order Capacities and the Argument from Potential; Chapter 5 Not Just Damaged Goods: Higher-Order Capacities and the Argument from Marginal Cases; Chapter 6 Old Objections and New Directions: Capacities and Moral Status at the Very Borders of Human Life; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
How could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same 'serious' moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities, and that if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status |
| Analysis |
volksgezondheid |
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public health |
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filosofie |
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philosophy |
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geneeskunde |
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medicine |
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bioethics |
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ethiek |
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ethics |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Filosofie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Fetus.
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Brain damage -- Patients.
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Genetic disorders -- Patients
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Ethics.
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Life sciences.
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Brain Damage, Chronic
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Ethics, Medical
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Fetus
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Genetics, Medical -- ethics
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Personhood
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Ethics
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Biological Science Disciplines
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ethics (philosophy)
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biological sciences.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Brain damage -- Patients
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Fetus
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Genetic disorders -- Patients
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Medical ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048185375 |
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9048185378 |
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