Overview

This book offers a rich variety of thoughtful explorations on the nature of the human person especially as related to health care, medicine, and mental health. Rarely are so many different viewpoints collected in one place about the intriguing puzzle that is the concept of person, human dignity, and the special place human beings hold in the goals of healing and the social structures of medical delivery. Ramifications of the theory of personhood are presented for bioethics, genetics, individuality, uniqueness, international law, feminism, and human rights in health care. Intended for professionals in the fields of philosophy of medicine, law, and bioethics, this book will also appeal to psychologists and medical anthropologists.

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Author:   David C. Thomasma ,  David N. Weisstub ,  Christian Hervé
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.718kg
ISBN:  

9789048158584

ISBN 10:   9048158583
Pages:   451
Publication Date:   08 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Homage to Yves Pélicier.- 1: The Development of the Concept of Personhood.- 2: Persons.- 3: The Human Person as The Image of God.- 4: The Person.- 5: The Failure of Theories of Personhood.- 6: Personhood: The Vain and Pointless Quest for a Definition.- 7: Genetic Knowledge and Our Conception of Ourselves as Persons.- 8: The Concept of the Person and the Value of Life.- 9: The Just and Medical Ethics.- 10: The Concept of Person in Bioethics: Impasse and Beyond.- 11: Towards a Social Concept of Person.- 12: A Key Term in Ethics: The Person and His Dignity.- 13: The Confucian Relational Concept of the Person and Its Modern Predicament.- 14: The Traditional African Perception of a Person.- 15: The Anthropological Concept of Modern Medicine in the Perspective of Theological Ethics.- 16: The Procedural Morphing of the Person: From Self to Property.- 17: Personal Identity and Mental Health.- 18: The Person, Filiation, Possession: Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).- 19: Moral and Metaphysical Reflections on Multiple Personality Disorder.- 20: Personhood and a Paradox About Capacity.- 21: Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity.- 22: Some Reflections on the Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood, and Personal Identity.- 23: Cloning, Naturalness and Personhood.- 24: Vulnerable Persons.- 25: Human Dignity, Vulnerability, Personhood.- 26: Personhood and Relational Persons.- 27: Professionalism and Personhood.- 28: Autonomy and Dialogue: About the Patient-Doctor Relationship.- 29: The Medical Interpretation of Pain and the Concept of Person.- 30: Suffering, Time, Narrative and the Self.

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