Authors:Mark J. Cherry, John F. Peppin,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: bioethics, annals, routledge, regional, perspectives
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 9026519524
ISBN-13: 9789026519529

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.

Author: Glenn McGee
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: bioethics, basic, pragmatic
Number of Pages: 309
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0262632721
ISBN-13: 9780262632720

Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems in bioethics. For pragmatism, ethics is a way of satisfying the complex demands of multiple individuals and groups in a contingent and changing world

Authors:Mr. Scott B. Rae, Mr. Paul M. Cox,
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Keywords: bioethics, issues, critical, approach, christian, pluralistic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0802845959
ISBN-13: 9780802845955

This excellent introduction to bioethics provides principled moral discussion of today’s medical and scientific breakthroughs. Written to help people understand the challenging, often controversial field of bioethics, this needed work explains and assesses the various secular approaches to bioethics that are influential today. Using currently debated topics in bioethics as illustrations, the authors discuss the theological themes that are central to a fully informed Christian perspective on bioethics. Their work provides readers with the essential background for effectively engaging t

Author: Carl Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: bioethics, reflective, identity, culture, philosophical, disease
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-11-11
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0415919401
ISBN-13: 9780415919401

Drawing on the work of writers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, this text brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life. Carl Elliott explores the relationship of illness to identity, and of mental illness to spiritual illness. He also examines the treatment of children born with ambiguous genitalia, the claims of deaf culture, and the morality of self-sacrifice. This book focuses on a different sensibility in bioethics - how we use concepts, and how they relate to our own particular so

Author:
Publisher: US Independent Agencies and Commissions
Keywords: bioethics, president, council, commissioned, essays, dignity, human
Number of Pages: 571
Published: 2008-07-16
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0160800714
ISBN-13: 9780160800719

Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelso
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: bioethics, reflective, approaches, narrative, limits, stories
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-10-03
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 041591910X
ISBN-13: 9780415919104

Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories. And all bioethicists work with cases--from court cases that shape policy matters to case studies that chronicle sickness. But how useful are these various narratives for sorting out moral matters? What kind of ethical work can stories do--and what are the limits to this work? The new essays in Stories and Their Limits offer insightful reflections on the relationship between narratives and

Authors:Mark G. Kuczewski, Ronald Polansky,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: bioethics, basic, issues, themes, ancient, contemporary
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2002-02-07
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0262611775
ISBN-13: 9780262611770

In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethics committees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge is based on experience within the field rather than on universal theoretical propositions, it is open to criticism for its lack of theoretical foundation. Once in the clinic, however, ethicists noted the extent to which medical practice itself combined the certitudes of science with craft forms of knowledge. In an effort to forge a middle path between pure science and applied medical and ethical knowledge, bioethicists t