Personhood and health care /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Pub.,
2001.
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| Series: | International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ;
v. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- The development of the concept of personhood
- Persons
- The human person as the image of God
- The person
- The failure of theories of personhood
- Personhood : the vain and pointless quest for a definition
- Genetic knowledge and our conception of ourselves as persons
- The concept of the person and the value of life
- The just and medical ethics
- The concept of person in bioethics : impasse and beyond
- Towards a social concept of person
- A key term in ethics : the person and his dignity
- The Confucian relational concept of the person and its modern predicament
- The traditional African perception of a person
- The anthropological concept of modern medicine in the perspective of theological ethics
- The procedural morphing of the person : from self to property
- Personal identity and mental health
- The person, filiation, possession : concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
- Moral and metaphysical reflections on mutiple personality disorder
- Personhood and a paradox about capacity
- Precedent autonomy and personal identity
- Some reflections on the problem of advance directives, personhood, and personal identity
- Cloning, naturalness and personhood
- Vulnerable persons
- Human dignity, vulnerability, personhood
- Personhood and relational persons
- Professionalism and personhood
- Autonomy and dialogue : about the patient-doctor relationship
- The medical interpretation of pain and the concept of person
- Suffering, time, narrative and the self