Potentiality : Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions.
Lizza, John P.
Potentiality : Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (287 pages)
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.
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.
9781421411781
Bioethics-Philosophy.
Electronic books.
QH332 .P686 2014
176
Potentiality : Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (287 pages)
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.
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.
9781421411781
Bioethics-Philosophy.
Electronic books.
QH332 .P686 2014
176