What Is a Person?. AN ETHICAL EXPLORATION, Hardback/James W. Walters

At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is more important to understand what constitutes a person. What are the medical, ethical, moral, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria that determine protectable human life? This book addresses with another ambitious and complicated matter: determining the nature of personhood. Publisher: University of Illinois Press Author(s): James W. Walters Number of pages: 208 Publication date: 1997 Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31 Cover type: Hardback