Human identity and bioethics / David DeGrazia.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

xi, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Human persons: numerical identity and essence -- Human persons: narrative identity and self-creation -- Identity, what we are, and the definition of death -- Advance directives, dementia, and the someone else problem -- Enhancement technologies and self-creation -- Prenatal identity: genetic interventions, reproductive choices.