{"product_id":"what-is-a-person-2","title":"What Is a Person?","description":"      At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is ever more\u003cbr\u003e         important to understand what constitutes a person. What are the medical,\u003cbr\u003e         ethical, moral, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria that determine\u003cbr\u003e         protectable human life?\u003cbr\u003e       Following immediately on the publication of his highly praised book \u003ci\u003eChoosing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        Who's to Live,\u003c\/i\u003e James Walters addresses with depth and wisdom another\u003cbr\u003e         ambitious and complicated matter: determining the nature of personhood.\u003cbr\u003e         By providing a much-needed religious\/philosophical context for the discussion--examining\u003cbr\u003e         contemporary thinking on just what constitutes valuable life--Walters\u003cbr\u003e         broadens his inquiry beyond the human to include other animals and deals\u003cbr\u003e         with the phenomenon of anencephalic infants, those who are born without\u003cbr\u003e         higher brains.\u003cbr\u003e       Searching for a measurable and humane standard of personhood, Walters\u003cbr\u003e         looks at the current definition of it and declares it inadequate--offering\u003cbr\u003e         instead the idea of proximate personhood, with criteria for helping to\u003cbr\u003e         determine which individuals possess a unique claim to life.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263191503192,"sku":"9780252022784","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/what-is-a-person-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}