What Is a Person?
AN ETHICAL EXPLORATION
When does a person qualify for protected and continuing life? At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is ever more important to understand what constitutes a person. What are the medical, ethical, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria that determine protectable human life? By providing a much-needed religious/philosophical context for the discussion - examining contemporary thinking on just what constitutes valuable life - Walters broadens his inquiry beyond the human to include other animals and also deals with the phenomenon of anencephalic infants, those who are born without higher brains. Searching for a measurable and…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-02278-4
- EAN: 9780252022784
- Produktnummer: 1636628
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.5 cm x D3.1 cm 395 g
- Gewicht: 395
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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