Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics By Michael QuanteEnglish | PDF | 2017 | 262 Pages | ISBN : 3319568671 | 2 MB
This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism). Based on a metaphysical account of personal identity in the sense of persistence and conditions for human beings, conceptions for beginning of life, and death are developed.