Potentiality : metaphysical and bioethical dimensions / edited by John P. Lizza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lizza, John P., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics--Philosophy.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: THE NATURE OF POTENTIALITY""; ""1 Aristotle�s Theory of Potentiality""; ""2 Dispositions and Potentialities""; ""3 The Paradoxes of Potentiality""; ""4 Physical Possibility and Potentiality in Ethics""; ""5 Abortion: Listening to the Middle""; ""PART II: POTENTIALITY AT THE BEGINNING OF LIFE""; ""6 Persons with Potential""; ""7 The Moral Status of Stem Cells""; ""8 Potential""; ""9 Abortion and the Margins of Personhood""; ""10 Revisiting the Argument from Fetal Potential""

""PART III: POTENTIALITY AT THE END OF LIFE""""11 Are DCD Donors Dead?""; ""12 The Irreversibility of Death: Metaphysical, Physiological, Medical or Ethical?""; ""13 On the Ethical Relevance of Active versus Passive Potentiality""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-1178-4

OCLC:

868068087