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050 4 _aQH332 .P686 2014
082 0 _a176
100 1 _aLizza, John P.
245 1 0 _aPotentiality :
_bMetaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (287 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aIncorporating 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aBioethics-Philosophy.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aLizza, John P.
_tPotentiality
_dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2014
_z9781421411743
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318784
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