Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics

James Stacey Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-89157-9 (ISBN)

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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. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.

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

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

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-138-89157-6 / 1138891576
ISBN-13	978-1-138-89157-9 / 9781138891579
Zustand	Neuware