David C Thomasma

Personhood and Health Care - International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine David C Thomasma 2001 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Dedication. Acknowledgments. Contributors. Preface; D. C. Thomasma, et al. Homage to Yves Pelicier; C. Herve. Part One: Concepts of the Person. 1. The Development of the Concept of Personhood; J. Delumeau. 2. Persons; L. E. Goodman. 3. The Human Person as the Image of God; D. Novak. 4. The Person; J. Bernard. 5. The Failure of Theories of Personhood; T. L. Beauchamp. 6. Personhood: The Vain and Pointless Quest for a Definition; E. L. Erde. 7. Genetic Knowledge and Our Conception; T. Takala. 8. The Concept of the Person and the Value of Life; J. Harris. Part Two: Theories of Personhood in Medicine and Bioethics. 9. The Just and Medical Ethics; P. Ricoeur. 10. The Concept of Person in Bioethics: Impasse and Beyond; H. Doucet. 11. Towards a Social Concept of Person; R. H. J. ter Meulen. 12. A Key Term in Ethics: The Person and His Dignity; S. Plourde. 13. The Confucian Relational Concept of the Person and its Modern Predicament; J. Ci. 14. The Traditional African Perception of a Person; G. B. Tangwa. 15. The Anthropological Concept of Modern Medicine in the Perspective of Theological Ethics; U. Kostka. Part Three: Person and Identity. 16. The Procedural Morphing of the Person: From Self to Property; J. L. Kissell. 17. Personal Identity and Mental Health; E. Matthews. 18. The Person, Filiation, Possession: Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID); J. Guyotat. 19. Moral and Metaphysical Reflections on Multiple Personality Disorder; D. C. Thomasma. 20. Personhood and a Paradox About Capacity; J. Spike. 21. Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity; M. Quante. 22. Some Reflections on the Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood, and Personal Identity; H. Kuhse. Part Four: Personhood and its Relations. 23. Cloning, Naturalness and Personhood; M. Hayry, T. Takala. 24. Vulnerable Persons; M. Silberfeld. 25. Human Dignity, Vulnerability, Personhood; D. N. Weisstub, D. C. Thomasma. 26. Personhood and Relational Persons; C. K. Perry. 27. Professionalism and Personhood; M. G. Bloche, K. P. Quinn. 28. Autonomy and Dialogue: About the Patient-Doctor Relationship; J. Nessa. 29. The Medical Interpretation of Pain and the Concept of Person; G. D. Pintos. 30. Suffering, Time, Narrative and the Self; L. Benaroyo. Index."

Contributor Bio:  Thomasma, David C Edmund D. Pellegrino, M. D., is John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Georgetown University. David C. Thomasma, Ph. D., is director of the Medical Humanities Program at Loyola University of Chicago.