Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 384 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Format: paperback
Published: March 2000

ISBN-10: 0-8308-1577-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1577-7
IVP Order Code: 1577

Subjects

Philosophy

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1: Metaphysical Reflections on Human Personhood
1. Establishing a Framework for Approaching Human Personhood
2. Human Persons as Substances or Property-Things
3. Human Persons in Naturalist & Complementarian Perspectives
4. Substance Dualism & the Human Person: Free Agency
5. Substance Dualism & the Human Person: Personal Identity
6. Substance Dualism & the Body: Heredity, DNA & the Soul

Part 2: Ethical Reflections on Human Personhood
7. The Moral & Metaphysical Status of the Unborn: Abortion & Fetal Research
8. Reproductive Techologies in Substance-Dualist Perspective
9. Genetic Technologies & Human Cloning
10. Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide & Care of Persons at the End of Life

Conclusion

Notes

Index