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Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships

Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cherry, Mark J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine ; 60
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Ontology.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
Philosophy of Medicine.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Sale of Organs
  • Bodies and Persons: Ontological Questions
  • Body and Soul in Greek Philosophy
  • A Millian Perspective on the Relationship Between Persons and Their Bodies
  • What Does It Mean To Be Somebody? Phenomenological Reflections and Ethical Quandaries
  • An Orthodox Christian View of Persons and Bodies
  • Natural Law and Natural Rights
  • Personal Responsibility and Freedom in Health Care: A Contemporary Natural Law Perspective
  • The Alienability of Lockean Natural Rights
  • Inalienable Rights in the Moral and Political Philosophy of John Locke: A Reappraisal
  • Metaphysical Quandaries and Moral Questions
  • The Integrity of Body: Kantian Moral Constraints on the Physical Self
  • Whose Body? What Body? The Metaphysics of Organ Transplantation
  • The Impact of Biomedical Developments on the Legal Theory of the Mind-body Relationship
  • The Body for Profit: Organ Sales and Moral Theory
  • The Body for Fun, Beneficence, and Profit: A Variation on a Post-Modern Theme
  • Despair, Desire, and Decision: A Fugal Response to Engelhardt
  • The Sale of Organs and Obligations to OneỚ"s Body: Inferences from the Histoy of Ethics
  • Persons and Their Bodies: Key Arguments and Contemporary Critiques
  • The Integrity of the Body: Critical Remarks on a Persistent Theme in Bioethics
  • The Commercialization of Human Body Parts: Public Policy Considerations.

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