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
133 / M2O6
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
133 / M2O6