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The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life / by Jeff McMahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMahan, Jeff.
- Series:
- Oxford ethics series.
- Oxford ethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Murder.
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Abortion.
- Killing of older people--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Killing of older people.
- Killing of the mentally ill--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Killing of the mentally ill.
- Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Euthanasia.
- Euthanasia--ethics.
- Abortion, Induced--ethics.
- Attitude to Death.
- Embryo Research.
- Patient Rights.
- Medical Subjects:
- Euthanasia--ethics.
- Abortion, Induced--ethics.
- Attitude to Death.
- Embryo Research.
- Patient Rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 540 pages)
- Other Title:
- Problems at the margins of life
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
- Contents:
- 1. IDENTITY: Preliminaries
- The soul
- Are we human organisms?
- The psychological account
- The embodied mind account
- 2. DEATH: Preliminaries
- The problem of comparison
- The metaphysical problem
- The problem of overdetermination
- Overall lifelong fortune
- The death of fetuses and infants
- A paradox
- 3. KILLING: The wrongness of killing and the badness of death
- Animals and severely cognitively impaired human beings
- Equality and respect
- 4. BEGINNINGS: Early abortion
- Late abortion
- Prenatal harm
- Is a later abortion worse?
- Time-relative interests and adaptation
- Potential
- The sanctity of human life
- Infanticide
- Abortion as the denial of life support
- Abortion and self-defense
- 5. ENDINGS: When do we die, or cease to exist?
- Euthanasia and assisted suicide
- The withering away of the self.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987963-X
- 0-19-516982-4
- 0-19-972018-5
- 1-280-44327-8
- 9786610443277
- 0-19-802415-0
- 1-4237-5764-5
- OCLC:
- 64638570
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