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Author McMahan, Jeff.

Title The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life / by Jeff McMahan.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  179.7 M167E    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 540 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Oxford ethics series
Oxford ethics series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. IDENTITY: Preliminaries -- The soul -- Are we human organisms? -- The psychological account -- The embodied mind account -- 2. DEATH: Preliminaries -- The problem of comparison -- The metaphysical problem -- The problem of overdetermination -- Overall lifelong fortune -- The death of fetuses and infants -- A paradox -- 3. KILLING: The wrongness of killing and the badness of death -- Animals and severely cognitively impaired human beings -- Equality and respect -- 4. BEGINNINGS: Early abortion -- Late abortion -- Prenatal harm -- Is a later abortion worse? -- Time-relative interests and adaptation -- Potential -- The sanctity of human life -- Infanticide -- Abortion as the denial of life support -- Abortion and self-defense -- 5. ENDINGS: When do we die, or cease to exist? -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- The withering away of the self.
Subject Murder -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Killing of older people -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Killing of the mentally ill -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia -- ethics.
Abortion, Induced -- ethics.
Attitude to Death.
Embryo Research.
Patient Rights.
ISBN 0195079981 hardbd. alkaline paper
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