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Title

  • Beyond price : essays on birth and death

Summary

  • "In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest."--Publisher's website.

Names

  • Velleman, James David, author

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2015.

Contents

  • 1. Introduction -- 2. Against the Right to Die -- 3. A Right of Self-Termination? -- 4. Beyond Price -- 5. Family History -- 6. Persons in Prospect -- I. The Identity Problem -- II. The Gift of Life -- III. Love and Nonexistence -- 7. Well-Being and Time -- 8. So It Goes -- 9. Dying -- 10. -- The Rights to a Life -- Bibliography -- Index.

Headings

  • -  Bioethics
  • -  Medical ethics
  • -  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Ethics
  • -  Bio-ethics
  • -  Biology, life sciences
  • -  Ethics and moral philosophy
  • -  Humanities
  • -  Life sciences: general issues
  • -  Mathematics and science
  • -  Medical ethics and professional conduct
  • -  Medical profession
  • -  Medicine
  • -  Medicine: general issues
  • -  Philosophy

Genre

  • Electronic books

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-219) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-03-24).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (223 pages))

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QH332

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020716504

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Velleman, James David, Author. Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020716504/.

APA citation style:

Velleman, J. D. (2015) Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020716504/.

MLA citation style:

Velleman, James David, Author. Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020716504/>.