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Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical EthicsThe Beginning of Life

Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics: The Beginning of Life [The question of when a human life begins is usually posed in ethical contexts. Whoever wants to know if – and when – abortion is ethically permissible links the question of the beginning of life with genuine ethical problems: the question of the ethical status of the human individual in her first stages of life is one way to frame the issue. The same applies to the disputes concerning the admissibility or inadmissibility of research on human embryos and preimplantation diagnostics. Whoever enquires about the point in time at which an individual human life starts to exist does this mostly with a moral intention. Furthermore, the question of the beginning of life is frequently expressed in the first-person perspective, as exemplified by the title of Ford’s book When did I begin?.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical EthicsThe Beginning of Life

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
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978-3-319-56867-6
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35 –76
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10.1007/978-3-319-56869-0_3
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[The question of when a human life begins is usually posed in ethical contexts. Whoever wants to know if – and when – abortion is ethically permissible links the question of the beginning of life with genuine ethical problems: the question of the ethical status of the human individual in her first stages of life is one way to frame the issue. The same applies to the disputes concerning the admissibility or inadmissibility of research on human embryos and preimplantation diagnostics. Whoever enquires about the point in time at which an individual human life starts to exist does this mostly with a moral intention. Furthermore, the question of the beginning of life is frequently expressed in the first-person perspective, as exemplified by the title of Ford’s book When did I begin?.]

Published: May 25, 2017

Keywords: Moral Status; Human Organism; Genetic Identity; Human Individual; Life Process

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