Defining the beginning and end of life; readings on personal identity and bioethics.

9780801893377

Defining the beginning and end of life; readings on personal identity and bioethics.

Ed. by John P. Lizza.

Johns Hopkins U. Press

2009

576 pages

$30.00

Paperback

R726

Who should be counted among the living "we"? This question is at the heart of this challenging and scholarly volume that examines the bioethical issues of personhood and personal identity, both on the theoretical level and the practical level. Lizza (Philosophy, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) has collected essays that address three broad topics: differing views on the nature of persons, the debate over abortion and the moral status of embryos, and alternative definitions and determinations of death. Contributors range from contemporary scholars and experts to Plato, Descartes, and other philosophers.

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