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.
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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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Death Unterrible
  • 1. Posthumous Harm and Interest-based Accounts of Well-being
  • 2. Further Criticisms of the Possibility of Posthumous Harm
  • 3. The Impossibility of Posthumous Harm
  • 4. Can the Dead be Wronged?
  • 5. Why Death is Not a Harm to the One Who Dies
  • 6. Fearless Symmetry
  • 7. Epicureanism, Suicide, and Euthanasia
  • 8. Epicureanism and Organ Procurement
  • 9. Further Bioethical Applications of Full-blooded Epicureanism
  • Conclusion