Beyond price : essays on birth and death

Beyond price essays on birth and death

"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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Open Book Publishers (-)
Other Authors: Velleman, J. David, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers 2015
[2015]
Subjects:
Bioethics.
medical ethics
bioethics
donor conception
assisted suicide
death and dying
euthanasia
reproductive technology
Immanuel Kant
Parent
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423611006719
Table of Contents:
  • 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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