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Potentiality : Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421411781
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PotentialityDDC classification:
  • 176
LOC classification:
  • QH332 .P686 2014
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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