Personhood and health care /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomasma, David C., 1939-
Other Authors: Weisstub, David N., 1944-, Hervé, Christian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Pub., 2001.
Series:International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 7.
Subjects:
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