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Human identity and bioethics /

When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: what are the criteria for a person's continuing existence? When non-philosophers address it, they often have in mind narrative identity: which characteristics of a particular person are salient to her self-con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeGrazia, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human persons: numerical identity and essence
  • Human persons: narrative identity and self-creation
  • Identity, what we are, and the definition of death
  • Advance directives, dementia, and the someone else problem
  • Enhancement technologies and self-creation
  • Prenatal identity: genetic interventions, reproductive choices.