Personhood and Health Care

Homage to Yves Pélicier.- 1: The Development of the Concept of Personhood.- 2: Persons.- 3: The Human Person as The Image of God.- 4: The Person.- 5: The Failure of Theories of Personhood.- 6: Personhood: The Vain and Pointless Quest for a Definition.- 7: Genetic Knowledge and Our Conception of Ourselves as Persons.- 8: The Concept of the Person and the Value of Life.- 9: The Just and Medical Ethics.- 10: The Concept of Person in Bioethics: Impasse and Beyond.- 11: Towards a Social Concept of Person.- 12: A Key Term in Ethics: The Person and His Dignity.- 13: The Confucian Relational Concept of the Person and Its Modern Predicament.- 14: The Traditional African Perception of a Person.- 15: The Anthropological Concept of Modern Medicine in the Perspective of Theological Ethics.- 16: The Procedural Morphing of the Person: From Self to Property.- 17: Personal Identity and Mental Health.- 18: The Person, Filiation, Possession: Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).- 19: Moral and Metaphysical Reflections on Multiple Personality Disorder.- 20: Personhood and a Paradox About Capacity.- 21: Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity.- 22: Some Reflections on the Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood, and Personal Identity.- 23: Cloning, Naturalness and Personhood.- 24: Vulnerable Persons.- 25: Human Dignity, Vulnerability, Personhood.- 26: Personhood and Relational Persons.- 27: Professionalism and Personhood.- 28: Autonomy and Dialogue: About the Patient-Doctor Relationship.- 29: The Medical Interpretation of Pain and the Concept of Person.- 30: Suffering, Time, Narrative and the Self.