On being human: distinctiveness, dignity, disability and disposal

Marsh, Michael N.

On being human: distinctiveness, dignity, disability and disposal Marsh, Michael N. - Winchester Iff Books 2015 - xi, 282 p.

Table of Contents:

I. Distinctiveness
1. Introduction: Exploring the Breadth & Depth of Being Human
2. Physical (Evolutionary) Anthropology
3. Genes, Genetics & Epigenetics
4. On Being Conscious
5. On Acquiring Language

II. Dignity
6. Theological Approaches to Personhood
7. Ascribing Moral Status to the Human Embryo-Foetus?

III. Disablement
8. On Being Disabled, Dysfunctional, & Disfigured

IV. Disposal
9. The Embryo, Abortion & Infanticide: Biological Thoughts and Ethical Concerns
10. Assisted Death & Assisted Suicide
11. Assisted Death: Theological Proposals

V. Resume
12. On Being Human.



A study of human beings – our origins, status, beginnings and endings. It asks what is entailed in being human?

(http://www.iff-books.com/books/on-being-human)

9781782794516


Humanity
Theological anthropology
Assisted suicide
Abortion
Disabilities

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