Harmonizing Bioethics

Author : Michael Cheng-tek Tai
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913609

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Harmonizing Bioethics by Michael Cheng-tek Tai Pdf

Harmonizing Bioethics is about relationships of peoples and cultures, our civilizations and living environments. Following the original concept of bioethics by Fritz Jahr, we search for harmonizing discourses in the process of industrialization and globalization. Confucius 'compassion' and Jesus 'love your neighbor' are the global backbones of our actual and future deliberations. 'Do not hurt, be compassionate, be respectful, be responsible'. Issues such as caring for the poor, euthanasia, organ transplantation and physician-lay collaboration and teamwork are discussed in transcultural evaluation. A special aspect of urban bioethics and culture discusses also the influence of artificial intelligence. Building upon these pluriperspective grounds will direct us and the world in future collaboration as a bridge in global ways in integrating peoples and values advancing to a new age for all.

Author : Michael Cheng-Tek Tai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9783643963604

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Harmonizing Bioethics by Michael Cheng-Tek Tai Pdf

Author : Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030780364

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From Physicians’ Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics by Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes Pdf

This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine. It records their strategies for overcoming initial resistance among physicians and philosophers and (in the East) politicians. This work traces their different approaches, such as socialist versus liberal bioethics; illustrates their attempt to introduce a culture of dialogue in medicine; and examines their moral ambiguities inherent to the institutionalization of bioethics and in law. Furthermore, the essays in this work pay special attention to the problem of ethics expertise in the context of a pluralism, which the intellectual mainstream of the country seeks to reduce to “varieties of post-traditionalism". Finally, this book addresses the problem of “patient autonomy”,and highlights the difficulty of harmonizing commitment to professional integrity with the project of enhancing physician’s responsiveness to suffering patients. As these essays illustrate, the development of bioethics in Germany does not follow a linear line of progressiveness, but rather retains a sense of the traditional ethos of the guild. An ethos, however, that is challenged by moral pluralism in such a way that, even today, still requires adequate solutions. A must read for all academics interested in the origins and the development of bioethics.

Author : Alastair V. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135130671

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Bioethics: The Basics by Alastair V. Campbell Pdf

Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include: The range of moral theories underpinning bioethics Arguments for the rights and wrongs of abortion, euthanasia and animal research Healthcare ethics including the nature of the practitioner-patient relationship Public policy ethics and the implications of global and public health Concise, readable and authoritative, this is the ideal primer for anyone interested in the study of bioethics.

Author : Hans-Martin Sass
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643914842

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From the 'Rivers of Babylon' to the 'Rivers of the Internet' by Hans-Martin Sass Pdf

The ‘rivers of Babylon’ were built 3500 years ago by technical and political leaders between Euphrates and Tigris, creating the high culture of Mesopotamia, cultivating dry desert lands into fertile soil, built central cities and the Gardens of Semiramis, using the waterways for exchange of communication, commerce, and control. The ‘rivers of the Internet’ are built in the 21st century creating integrated cultures of people, of things and everything, of geospaces and cyberspaces, of artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial sensuality (AS), changing individuals, cultures and politics, creating newly integrated state and non-state bodies of culture, commerce, control, politics, and power. New tools and technologies have changed our ideational, environmental, economic, political and cultural biotopes, but people and communities are still good or bad as they were 3500 years ago. Hegel measured progress in world history via the ‘progress of the ‘consciousness of freedom’ in communities and civilizations. The Hegelian geography teacher and 1848 rebel Ernst Kapp measured progress in world history via the ‘cultivation of lands and communities by tools and technologies’. Should we understand World History as unilinear (Hegel), or rotating (Polybius), or spiraling (Burckhardt), or conditional on tools and techniques (Kapp), or based on trends and fashions?

Author : Robert Petkovsek,Bojan Zalec
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912114

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Ethics of Resilience by Robert Petkovsek,Bojan Zalec Pdf

Resilience is one of the hottest terms in the modern humanities, social sciences and beyond. The reason for this is the current situation at various levels, from ecological, health, economical to political, which requires the formation of resilience from individuals, communities, countries, institutions and humanity as a whole. The term resilience refers to a new realistic paradigm in tackling the challenges required by the modern world, in which changes are happening faster and faster and are becoming less transparent and predictable. Therefore, the paradigm of stability and protection against disturbances is no longer realistic and has been replaced by the paradigm of resilience. People, natural and social systems can no longer be protected from ruptures, but must become as resilient as possible. This, in turn, raises a number of issues involving ethical questions and challenges for religions. This book addresses these issues in a holistic and interdisciplinary way that fits the multifaceted nature of resilience.

Author : Ronald M. Green,Aine Donovan,Steven A. Jauss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191609404

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Global Bioethics by Ronald M. Green,Aine Donovan,Steven A. Jauss Pdf

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Ethical questions that once arose only in the narrow context of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous societies are now being raised across societies, cultures, and continents. For example, what should be the "standard of care" for clinical trials of medical innovations in poorer countries? Are researchers obligated to compare new therapies or drugs with the best known ones available, or can they use as a benchmark the actual treatments (or lack of treatments) available to poor people? Should pharmaceutical companies seeking to lower the costs of new drug trials be allowed to enrol citizens of less developed countries in them even when those individuals cannot afford and will not be eligible for the resulting drugs? More generally, should the norms of medicine and research be the same across cultures or can they adapt to local social, economic, or religious conditions? Global Bioethics gathers some of the world's leading bioethicists to explore many of the new questions raised by the globalization of medical care and biomedical research. Among the topics covered are the impact of globalization on the norms of medical ethics, the conduct of international research, the ethics of international collaborations, challenges to medical professionalism in the international setting, and the relation of religion to global bioethics.

Author : Scaria Kanniyakonil
Publisher : Scaria Kanniyakonil
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 8188456284

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The Fundamentals of Bioethics: Legal Perspectives and Ethical Aproches by Scaria Kanniyakonil Pdf

Author : Helga Kuhse,Peter Singer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444345407

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A Companion to Bioethics by Helga Kuhse,Peter Singer Pdf

This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics. Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching Now includes new essays on currently controversial topics such as cloning and genetic enhancement Topics are clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves

Author : John McMillan
Publisher : Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199603756

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The Methods of Bioethics by John McMillan Pdf

This is the first book in bioethics that explains how it is that you actually go about doing good bioethics. Bioethics has made a mistake about its methods, and this has led not only to too much theorizing, but also fragmentation within bioethics. The unhelpful disputes between those who think bioethics needs to be more philosophical, more sociological, more clinical, or more empirical, continue. While each of these claims will have some point, they obscure what should be common to all instances of bioethics. Moreover, they provide another phantom that can lead newcomers to bioethics down blind alleyways stalked by bristling sociologists and philosophers. The method common to all bioethics is bringing moral reason to bear upon ethical issues, and it is more accurate and productive to clarify what this involves than to stake out a methodological patch that shows why one discipline is the most important. This book develops an account of the nature of bioethics and then explains how a number of methodological spectres have obstructed bioethics becoming what it should. In the final part, it explains how moral reason can be brought to bear upon practical issues via an 'empirical, Socratic' approach.

Author : Renee C. Fox,Renée Claire Fox,Judith P. Swazey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195365559

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Observing Bioethics by Renee C. Fox,Renée Claire Fox,Judith P. Swazey Pdf

'Observing Bioethics' is written by two social scientists who have been participants in and observers of US bioethics since the field's emergence. The book views bioethics appreciatively and critically as a complex phenomenon that is related to advances in modern biology and medicine.

Author : Robert Petkovsek,Bojan Zalec
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912978

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Transhumanism as a Challenge for Ethics and Religion by Robert Petkovsek,Bojan Zalec Pdf

The crucial question of our time is: How to preserve humanity, humanitas, in a world of radical and not so long ago practically unimaginable technological possibilities? The book addresses this issue through its treatment of transhumanism, a diverse movement the representatives of which promise and advocate for the enhancement of human being through modern science, technology, and pharmacology. Their views differ in the degree of extremity, and they contain many ambiguities, as well as pitfalls and dangers that require an answer from both ethical and religious points of view. The book deepens the understanding of transhumanism in an interdisciplinary way and thus helps to form the right attitude towards it that will truly benefit human flourishing. It offers a rich variety of views on transhumanism, ranging from its illumination in the light of contemporary research into happiness, through liberal eugenics and biopolitics, all the way to its considerations in terms of religions and manifestations in concrete works of art.

Author : Joris Gielen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030304324

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Dealing with Bioethical Issues in a Globalized World by Joris Gielen Pdf

This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and multi-religious society. It offers original contributions by specialists in bioethics exploring new ways of understanding normativity in bioethics. In bioethical publications and debates, the concept of normativity is often used without consideration of the difficulties surrounding it, whereas there are many competing claims for normativity within bioethics. Examples of such competing normative bioethical discourses can be perceived in variations and differences in bioethical arguments within individual religions, and the opposition between bioethical arguments from specific religions and arguments from bioethicists who do not claim religious allegiance. We also cannot merely assume that a Western understanding of normative bioethics will be unproblematic in bioethics in non-Western cultures and religions. Through an analysis of normativity in Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish bioethics, the book creates awareness of the complexity of normativity in bioethics. The book also covers normative bioethics outside an explicitly religiously committed context, and specific attention is paid to bioethics as an interdisciplinary endeavor. It reveals how normativity relates to empirical and global bioethics, which challenges it faces in bioethics in secular pluralistic society, and how to overcome these. By doing that, this book fills an important gap in bioethics literature.

Author : Françoise Baylis,Alice Dreger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107120891

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Bioethics in Action by Françoise Baylis,Alice Dreger Pdf

A collection of first-person case studies that detail serious ethical problems in medical practice and research.

Author : Akira Akabayashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811535727

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Bioethics Across the Globe by Akira Akabayashi Pdf

This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where it stands on these issues. In the last chapter, the author proposes discarding the overarching term ‘Global Bioethics’ in favor of the new term, ‘Bioethics Across the Globe (BAG)’, which carries a more universal connotation. This book serves as an excellent tool to help readers understand a different culture and to initiate deep and genuine global dialogue that incorporates local and global thinking on bioethics. Bioethics Across the Globe is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of bioethics/medical ethics interested in adopting cross-cultural approaches, as well as graduate and undergraduate students of healthcare and philosophy.