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100 1 $aMcMahan, Jeff.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82030124
245 14 $aThe ethics of killing :$bkilling at the margins of life /$cby Jeff McMahan.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axiii, 540 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aOxford ethics series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIdentity.$g1.$tPreliminaries.$g2.$tThe Soul.$g3.$tAre We Human Organisms?$g4.$tThe Psychological Account.$g5.$tThe Embodied Mind Account --$g2.$tDeath.$g1.$tPreliminaries.$g2.$tThe Problem of Comparison.$g3.$tThe Metaphysical Problem.$g4.$tThe Problem of Overdetermination.$g5.$tOverall Lifelong Fortune.$g6.$tThe Deaths of Fetuses and Infants.$g7.$tA Paradox --$g3.$tKilling.$g1.$tThe Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death.$g2.$tAnimals and Severely Cognitively Impaired Human Beings.$g3.$tEquality and Respect --$g4.$tBeginnings.$g1.$tEarly Abortion.$g2.$tLate Abortion.$g3.$tPrenatal Harm.$g4.$tIs a Later Abortion Worse?$g5.$tTime-Relative Interests and Adaptation.$g6.$tPotential.$g7.$tThe Sanctity of Human Life.$g8.$tInfanticide.$g9.$tAbortion as the Denial of Life-Support.$g10.$tAbortion and Self-Defense --$g5.$tEndings.$g1.$tWhen Do We Die, or Cease to Exist?$g2.$tEuthanasia and Assisted Suicide.$g3.$tThe Withering Away of the Self.
520 1 $a"This book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of killing in cases in which the metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among the beings whose status is questionable or marginal in this way are human embryos and fetuses, neonates, animals, anencephalic infants, human beings with severe, congenital, cognitive impairments, and human beings who have become severely demented or irreversibly comatose.".
520 8 $a"In an attempt to understand the moral status of these beings, Jeff McMahan develops and defends distinctive accounts of the nature of personal identity, the evaluation of death, and the wrongness of killing. He contends that the morality of killing is not unitary; rather, the principles that determine the morality of killing in marginal cases are different from those that govern the killing of persons who are self-conscious and rational."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMurder$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aAbortion$xMoral and ethical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000201
650 0 $aKilling of the elderly$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aKilling of the mentally ill$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aEuthanasia$xMoral and ethical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103361
830 0 $aOxford ethics series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89622359
852 00 $bglx$hHV6515$i.M35 2002
852 00 $bmorl$hHV6515$i.M35 2002