Personhood and Health Care

by Thomasma, David C.; Herve, Christian

• ISBN13: 9781402000980
• ISBN10: 1402000987
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book offers a rich variety of thoughtful explorations on the nature of the human person especially as related to health care, medicine, and mental health. Rarely are so many different viewpoints collected in one place about the intriguing puzzle that is the concept of person, human dignity, and the special place human beings hold in the goals of healing and the social structures of medical delivery. Ramifications of the theory of personhood are presented for bioethics, genetics, individuality, uniqueness, international law, feminism, and human rights in health care. Intended for professionals in the fields of philosophy of medicine, law, and bioethics, this book will also appeal to psychologists and medical anthropologists.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Preface	1	(8)
David C. Thomasma
David N. Weisstub
Christian Herve
Homage to Yves Pelicier	9	(4)
Christian Herve
PART ONE: Concepts of the Person
The Development of the Concept of Personhood	13	(6)
Jean Delumeau
Persons	19	(24)
Lenn E. Goodman
The Human Person as The Image of God	43	(12)
David Novak
The Person	55	(4)
Jean Bernard
The Failure of Theories of Personhood	59	(12)
Tom L. Beauchamp
Personhood: The Vain and Pointless Quest for a Definition	71	(20)
Edmund L. Erde
Genetic Knowledge and Our Conception of Ourselves as Persons	91	(8)
Tuija Takala
The Concept of the Person and the Value of Life	99	(16)
John Harris
PART TWO: Theories of Personahood in Medicine and Bioethics
The Just and Medical Ethics	115	(6)
Paul Ricoeur
The Concept of Person in Bioethics: Impasse and Beyond	121	(8)
Hubert Doucet
Towards a Social Concept of Person	129	(8)
Ruud H. J. ter Meulen
A Key Term in Ethics: The Person and His Dignity	137	(12)
Simonne Plourde
The Confucian Relational Concept of the Person and Its Modern Predicament	149	(16)
Jiwei Ci
The Traditional African Perception of a Person	165	(8)
Godfrey B. Tangwa
The Anthropological Concept of Modern Medicine in the Perspective of Theological Ethics	173	(18)
Ulrike Kostka
PART THREE: pERSON AND iDENTITY
The Procedural Morphing of the Person: From Self to Property	191	(12)
Judith Lee Kissell
Personal Identity and Mental Health	203	(10)
Eric Matthews
The Person, Filiation, Possession: Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)	213	(8)
Jean Guyotat
Moral and Metaphysical Reflections on Multiple Personality Disorder	221	(22)
David C. Thomasma
Personhood and a Paradox About Capacity	243	(10)
Jeffrey Spike
Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity	253	(12)
Michael Quante
Some Reflections on the Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood, and Personal Identity	265	(16)
Helga Kuhse
PART FOUR: Personhood and Its Relations
Cloning, Naturalness and Personhood	281	(18)
Matti Hayry
Tuija Takala
Vulnerable Persons	299	(18)
Michel Silberfeld
Human Dignity, Vulnerability, Personhood	317	(16)
David N. Weisstub
David C. Thomasma
Personhood and Relational Persons	333	(14)
Constance K. Perry
Professionalism and Personhood	347	(8)
M. Gregg Bloche
Kevin P. Quinn
Autonomy and Dialogue: About the Patient-Doctor Relationship	355	(8)
John Nessa
The Medical Interpretation of Pain and the Concept of Person	363	(10)
Guillermo Diaz Pintos
Suffering, Time, Narrative and the Self	373	(10)
Lazare Benaroyo
Index	383