Death, posthumous harm, and bioethics /

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Author / Creator:Taylor, James Stacey, 1970-
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:xiii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge annals of bioethics ; 12
Routledge annals of bioethics ; 12.
Subject:Death.
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Respect for persons.
Dead.
Bioethics.
Bioethics.
Dead.
Death.
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Respect for persons.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8916585
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ISBN:9780415518840
0415518849
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
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Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.

Physical Description:xiii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
ISBN:9780415518840
0415518849