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This book has two main goals. The first is to give an account, called Variabilism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons—persons who, relative to a particular circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. The second is to use Variabilism to illuminate abortion. According to Variabilism, merely possible persons—just like anyone else—matter morally but matter variably. Where we understand that a person incurs a loss whenever agents could have created more wellbeing for that person and instead create less, Variabilism asserts that the moral significance of any loss is a function of where that loss is incurred in relation to the person who incurs it. That is: a loss incurred at a world where the person who incurs that loss does or will exist has full more significance, according to Variabilism, while a loss incurred by that same person at a world where that person never exists at all has no moral significance whatsoever. Some other views deem all merely possible persons and all of their losses to matter morally. Still other views deem no merely possible persons and none of their losses to matter morally. Variabilism, instead, takes a middle ground between these two extreme positions. It thus opens the door to a certain middle ground on procreative choice in general and abortion in particular. Thus, given that, for persons, thinking and coming into existence come together, Variabilism supports the argument that the early abortion is ordinarily permissible when it is what the woman wants. That is so, since the loss incurred when, as an effect of the early abortion, a given person is never brought into existence to begin with has no moral significance at all. In contrast, the late abortion is ordinarily subject to a different analysis. For the loss incurred in that case has full moral significance, according to Variabilism, since it is incurred at a world where the person who incurs it already exists.

Professional ethics. Deontology --- sociologie --- ethiek --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- recht --- deontologie --- patiëntenrechten --- gezondheidsrecht --- medische ethiek --- grondrechten --- staatsrecht --- grondwet

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Social policy and particular groups --- Medical law --- Nursing --- Human medicine --- beroepsgeheim --- vrijwilligers --- abortus provocatus --- patiëntenvervoer --- informed consent --- aansprakelijkheid (recht) --- patiëntenrechten --- gezondheidsrecht --- privacy --- patiënt --- collocatie --- wilsonbekwaamheid --- medische ethiek

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Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals—eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question—for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human’s capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities; that if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status; and thus all human beings have the same sort of serious moral status as you and I. Beginning from what our common intuitions tell us about situations involving "temporary incapacitation"—where a human organism has, then loses, then regains a certain capacity—this book argues for substantive conclusions regarding human fetuses and embryos, humans in a permanent vegetative state, humans suffering from brain diseases, and humans born with genetic disorders. Since these conclusions must have some impact on our ongoing moral and political debates about the proper treatment of such humans, this book will be useful to professionals and students in philosophy, bioethics, law, medicine, and public policy.

Philosophy --- Psychology --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- General ethics --- Biology --- History of human medicine --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Human medicine --- volksgezondheid --- biologie --- ethiek --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- deontologie --- medische ethiek --- persoonlijkheidsleer

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Gehandicapten --- Gehandicapte kinderen --- Ouders --- Medische ethiek --- 376.3 --- Personen met een mentale handicap --- Chromosomen --- Kinderen met een handicap --- mensen met een mentale beperking --- Persoon met een handicap --- Kind met een handicap --- ouder --- Gesprek

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Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatric practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity.

Professional ethics. Deontology --- General ethics --- Medical law --- Didactics of medicine --- Psychiatry --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- psychiatrie --- ethiek --- geneeskunde --- deontologie --- patiëntenrechten --- gezondheidsrecht --- medische ethiek --- Psychiatric ethics --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- Mental health services ethics --- Medical ethics --- ethique (aspects ethiques)