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Ethiek --- Psychiatrie
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Filosofie --- Wetenschap --- Ethiek
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Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the 'Persistent Vegetative State' (PVS) has established itself as an apparently discrete medical condition with clear-cut implications for ethicists and lawyers that exceed any scientifically based understanding. As a consequence of this upgrading, conclusions drawn about the status and hence the management of this uncommon condition have been increasingly extended to other patients with much more common forms of disability. This book traces the origins of prevailing perceptions about PVS and submits these to critical examination. In doing this it comes to the conclusion that inadequate attention has been paid to acknowledging what is not known about affected individuals and that assumptions have consistently come to be traded as facts. Re-examination of the basis of the PVS and the adoption of a more scientific approach is long overdue and is owed to the community at large which has generally been provided by many medical practitioners with a 'dumbed-down' account of the condition. The book will be of interest to philosophers, medical graduates and neuroscientists but is also intended to remain accessible to the general reader with an interest in the wider implications of trends in medical thinking for attitudes towards many classes of patient. It has an extensive bibliography and will be of specific interest to bioethicists and lawyers with professional interests in PVS.
General ethics --- Pathology --- pathologie --- ethiek
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Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.
Philosophy --- General ethics --- ethiek --- filosofie
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170 --- Aristoteles --- christelijke ethiek --- deugdzaamheid --- ethiek --- filosofie --- geluk --- genot --- voortreffelijkheid --- voorzichtigheid --- vriendschap --- zelfbeheersing --- Ethiek
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261.8*30 --- 241.65 --- #GGSB: Sociale Ethiek --- #gsdb5 --- 261.8*30 Oecumenische theologie: ethiek --- Oecumenische theologie: ethiek --- 241.65 Theologische ethiek: rechtvaardigheid--(zie ook {330.86}) --- Theologische ethiek: rechtvaardigheid--(zie ook {330.86}) --- Christian moral theology --- Sociale Ethiek
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