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What Is a Person?

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Michael F. Goodman

    1. Department of Philosophy, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael F. Goodman
    Pages 1-27

  3. The “Beginning” of Human Life

    • Daniel Callahan
    Pages 29-55

  4. Human Being

    • Lawrence C. Becker
    Pages 57-81

  5. In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide

    • Michael Tooley
    Pages 83-114

  6. The Perils of Personhood

    • Roslyn Weissz
    Pages 115-126

  7. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person

    • Harry G. Frankfurt
    Pages 127-144

  8. Conditions of Personhood

    • Daniel Dennett
    Pages 145-167

  9. Medicine and the Concept of Person

    • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
    Pages 169-184

  10. Once and Future Persons

    • W. R. Carter
    Pages 185-197

  11. Personhood and the Conception Event

    • Robert E. Joyce
    Pages 199-211

  12. Who Shall Count as a Human Being?

    • Sissela Bok
    Pages 213-228

  13. On the Humanity of the Fetus

    • Baruch Brody
    Pages 229-250

  14. Abortion

    • Edward A. Langerak
    Pages 251-263

  15. The Life of a Person

    • Roland Puccetti
    Pages 265-280

  16. Human Life vs Human Personhood

    • Robert Brungs
    Pages 281-291

  17. Kinds and Persons

    • Peter A. French
    Pages 293-307

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 309-325
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About this book

The idea for an anthology on personhood grew out of two things, viz. , the work I did with Martin Benjamin during the Summer of 1982 at Michigan State University on the question, What is a person?, and the amount of time, effort, and expense required for serious research on the topic itself. The former experience taught me the importance of, among other things, attempting to get clear about what we are to mean by 'person,' while the latter experience suggested a possible course of action whereby getting clear might be made more manage­ able simply by having relatively convenient access to some of the most insightful and stimulating writings on the topic. The problems of personhood addressed in this book are central to issues in ethics ranging from the treatment or termination of infants with birth defects to the question whether there can be rational suicide. But before questions on such issues as the morality of abortion, genetic engineering, infanticide, and so on, can be settled, the prob­ lems of personhood must be clarified and analyzed. Hence What Is a Person? has as its primary theme the examination of various proposed conditions of personhood.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA

    Michael F. Goodman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What Is a Person?

  • Editors: Michael F. Goodman

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3950-5

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Humana Press Inc. 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-117-3Published: 04 August 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8412-3Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3950-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 325

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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