Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics

ISBN-13: 9780415518840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

James Stacey Taylor

Opis

'Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics' offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues.

Spis treści

Introduction: Death Unterrible  1. Posthumous Harm and Interest-based Accounts of Well-being  2. Further Criticisms of the Possibility of Posthumous Harm  3. The Impossibility of Posthumous Harm  4. Can the Dead be Wronged?  5. Why Death is Not a Harm to the One Who Dies  6. Fearless Symmetry  7. Epicureanism, Suicide, and Euthanasia 8 . Epicureanism and Organ Procurement  9. Further Bioethical Applications of Full-blooded Epicureanism  Conclusion

O autorze

James Stacey Taylor is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classics at The College of New Jersey.