The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-349-95302-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3846 g

Reihe: Jepson Studies in Leadership

Unites the work of established and distinguished philosophers such as Matthew Liao, David Wasserman, and the next generation of bioethicists 

Explores leaders' ethical responsibilities regarding health

Discusses ethical questions about identity, embodiment, discrimination, and accommodation, as well as questions concerning distributive justice and limitations on people’s medical rights

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Terry L.

Flanigan, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Theorizing about Human Capacity: A View from the Nineteenth Century.- 2. A More “Inclusive” Approach to Enhancement and Disability.- 3. Disability & Doing Justice.- 4. Disability, Well-being, and (In)Apt Emotions.- 5. Kantian Ethics, Well-being, and Disability.- 6. Dementia, Advance Directives, and the Problem of Temporal Selfishness.- 7. How Old is Old? Changing Conceptions of Old Age.- 8. Why Parents Should Enhance Their Children.- 9. Cosmopolitan Moral Enhancement.

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Flanigan is Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. 

Terry L. Price is Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA.