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  title info:
    title: Dead wrong
    sub title: the ethics of posthumous harm
  name:
    name part: Boonin, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person while they are alive even if the act has no effect on that person's conscious experiences. Second, that if this is so, then frustrating a person's desires is one way to wrongfully harm a person. And third, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person even if the act takes place after the person is dead. Over the course of the book, Boonin introduces the significance of posthumous harm, deals with each of his three main claims in turn, responds to the objections that might be raised against the book's thesis and examines some of the ethical implications for issues such as posthumous organ and gamete removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves and corpses and posthumous punishment and restitution.
  note: David Boonin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-205) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Death
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Respect for persons
  subject:
    topic: Dead
  classification: BJ1409.5 .B66 2019
  classification: 179.7
  identifier: 0198842104
  identifier: 9780198842101
  identifier: 9780192579379
  identifier: 9780191878626
  identifier: 2019946072
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190519
    record change date: 20201117142413.0
    record identifier: in00004350907