EAN: 9783319568676

PERSONAL IDENTITY AS A PRINCIPLE OF BIOMEDICAL ...

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.
Based on a biographical account of personality  normative questions concerning autonomy 
euthanasia  living wills and medical paternalism are dealt with. By these means the book shows
that ¿personal identity¿ has different meanings which have to be distinguished so that human
persistence and personality can be used to deal with central questions in biomedical ethics.

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