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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lizza, John P., Editor.

Contributor:

Lizza, John P., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics--Philosophy.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Incorporating cutting-edge research on the topic of potentiality, this thought-provoking collection will interest bioethicists, philosophers, health care professionals, attorneys engaged in medical and health issues, and hospital and governmental committees who advise on policy and law concerning issues at the beginning and end of life.

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