TY - BOOK ID - 677804 TI - Beyond price : essays on birth and death AU - Velleman, J. David AU - Open Book Publishers. PY - 2015 SN - 2821876335 1783741694 9781783741694 1783741678 1783741686 1783741708 9781783741700 1783741716 9781783741717 9781783741687 9781783741670 9781783741700 9781783741717 9781783741687 9781783741670 PB - Open Book Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Bioethics. KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Bioethics KW - Medical ethics KW - E-books KW - Clinical ethics KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Health care ethics KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Professional ethics KW - Nursing ethics KW - Social medicine KW - dood KW - mort KW - medical ethics KW - bioethics KW - donor conception KW - assisted suicide KW - death and dying KW - euthanasia KW - reproductive technology KW - Immanuel Kant KW - Parent UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:677804 AB - "In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest."--Publisher's website. ER -