Human Identity and Bioethics
Human Identity and Bioethics
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人类身份和生物伦理学
DOI：
10.5860/choice.43-4587
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
D. DeGrazia
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作者：
D. DeGrazia
当哲学家讨论个人身份时，他们通常会探讨数字身份：一个人持续存在的标准是什么？当非哲学家讨论个人身份时，他们通常会想到叙事身份：特定人的哪些特征对她的自我概念特别重要？本书对这两种身份感进行了阐述，认为两者在规范上都很重要，并且在通过身份的视角探索生物伦理学中的广泛问题方面是独一无二的。大卫·德格拉齐亚（David DeGrazia）捍卫了我们数字身份的生物学观点和理解叙事身份的框架，他研究了身份考虑至关重要的各种问题：死亡的定义；在严重痴呆症病例中预先指示的权威；使用增强技术；产前遗传干预；人类身份和生命伦理学展示了个人身份理论在阐明生命伦理学问题时的力量，因为它们将哲学理论带入生活。
When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: What are the criteria for a person’s continuing existence? When nonphilosophers address personal identity, they often have in mind narrative identity: Which characteristics of a particular person are especially salient to her self-conception? This book develops accounts of both senses of identity, arguing that both are normatively important, and is unique in its exploration of a wide range of issues in bioethics through the lens of identity. Defending a biological view of our numerical identity and a framework for understanding narrative identity, David DeGrazia investigates various issues for which considerations of identity prove critical: the definition of death; the authority of advance directives in cases of severe dementia; the use of enhancement technologies; prenatal genetic interventions; and certain types of reproductive choices.Human Identity and Bioethics demonstrates the power of personal identity theory to illuminate issues in bioethics as they bring philosophical theory to life.