Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (Routledge Annals of Bioethics) (Routledge Annals of Bioethics, 12, Band 12) - Softcover

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Taylor, James Stacey

 
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This book offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.

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James Stacey Taylor is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classics at The College of New Jersey.

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ISBN 10:  0415518849 ISBN 13:  9780415518840
Verlag: Routledge, 2012
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