The Biological Foundations Of Bioethics

Author : Tim Lewens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191061981

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The Biological Foundations of Bioethics by Tim Lewens Pdf

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subjects them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement, the risks of technical progress, the alleged moral threat of synthetic biology, the reality of human nature, the relevance of evolutionary psychology to social policy, the nature of the distinction between health and disease, and justice in healthcare decision-making.

Author : Jane Maienschein,Michael Ruse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521559235

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Biology and the Foundations of Ethics by Jane Maienschein,Michael Ruse Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics.

Author : Tim Lewens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191021275

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The Biological Foundations of Bioethics by Tim Lewens Pdf

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subjects them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement, the risks of technical progress, the alleged moral threat of synthetic biology, the reality of human nature, the relevance of evolutionary psychology to social policy, the nature of the distinction between health and disease, and justice in healthcare decision-making.

Author : Sergio De Risio,Franco Orsucci
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781860945946

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Bioethics in Complexity by Sergio De Risio,Franco Orsucci Pdf

This publication reviews the foundations of ethics in the history ofWestern thinking. It connects these philosophical matters withevolutionary theory and contemporary bioethics, biology and medicine, posing new questions for the current dialectics between categoricaland contextual ethics. Novel answers are presented from complexitytheory self-organization and nonlinear dynamics

Author : Jane Maienschein,Michael Ruse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521551005

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Biology and the Foundations of Ethics by Jane Maienschein,Michael Ruse Pdf

There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of new essays focuses on the connection between biology and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks such questions as whether humans are innately selfish, and whether there are particular facets of human nature that bear directly on social practices. This is the first book to offer this historical perspective on the relation of biology and ethics, and has been written by some of the leading figures in the history and philosophy of science, whose work stands very much at the cutting edge of these disciplines.

Author : Irene Cambra-Badii,Ester Busquets-Alibés,Núria Terribas-Sala,Josep-E. Baños
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781003828945

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Bioethics by Irene Cambra-Badii,Ester Busquets-Alibés,Núria Terribas-Sala,Josep-E. Baños Pdf

The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges. In this sense, the target audience can be from diverse disciplines: life and medical sciences, law, philosophy, psychology, and education. The book will be useful to high school students, in their first contacts with bioethics, college students, teachers and researchers, and the general public interested in these controversial debates of the past, present and future of bioethics.

Author : Amir Muzur,Hans-Martin Sass
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643901125

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Fritz Jahr and the Foundations of Global Bioethics by Amir Muzur,Hans-Martin Sass Pdf

Leading bioethicists from America, Asia and Europe discuss Jahr's visionary concept of an ethics of 'bios', integrating the ethics of land, community, health, and culture in light of global challenges in the 21st century.

Author : Michael A. Grodin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9401106754

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Meta Medical Ethics by Michael A. Grodin Pdf

This anthology is the culmination of some 20 years of interest in the field of bioethics. I began my studies in the philosophy of science while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. My interest then, as now, continues to be the complex interrelationship between science and the humanities. While grounded in philosophy and molecular biology, I yearned for a more applied realm for exploration and integration of the value laden nature of science in the public policy arena. After receiving my medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I continued my work in medical ethics focusing primarily on the ethics of human experimentation, newborn and reproductive technologies, and human genetics. As I completed my clinical training at the University of California at Los Angeles and at Harvard, I had the opportunity to use philosophical ethics in an attempt to understand, frame and resolve moral dilemmas in clinical practice. As a professor of medical ethics at Boston University for the past decade, I have taught bioethics at the undergraduate, graduate and post doctoral levels. Over these years I have become increasingly frustrated by the state of contemporary bioethics. Medicine continues to serve as an interesting paradigm for philosophers to explore novel theories about life, death, mind, suffering and meaning. Philosophy, however, has not served medicine quite so well as a source of knowledge and discipline to resolve the contemporary moral dilemmas found in health care.

Author : E.E. Shelp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401577236

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Theology and Bioethics by E.E. Shelp Pdf

We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism. For a variety of rather complex reasons we continue to split apart and treat as radical opposites body and spirit, medicine and religion, sacred and secular, private and public, love and justice, men and women. Though this is still our strong tendency, we are beginning to discover both the futility and the harm of such dualistic splitting. Peoples of many ancient cultures might smile at the belatedness of our discovery concerning the commonalities of medicine and religion. A cur sory glance back at ancient Egypt, Samaria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome would disclose a common thread - the close union of religion and medicine. Both were centrally concerned with healing, health, and wholeness. The person was understood as a unity of body, mind, and spirit. The priest and the physician frequently were combined in the same individual. One of the important contributions of this significant volume of essays is the sustained attack upon dualism. From a variety of vantage points, virtually all of the authors unmask the varied manifestations of dualism in religion and medicine, urging a more holistic approach. Since the editor has provided an excellent summary of each article, I shall not attempt to comment on specific contributions. Rather , I wish to highlight three 1 broad themes which I find notable for theological ethics.

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195057362

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The Foundations of Bioethics by H. Tristram Engelhardt Pdf

This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.

Author : Thomas Anthony Shannon
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0809136945

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An Introduction to Bioethics by Thomas Anthony Shannon Pdf

In its third edition, this is a primer on the major bioethics issues of our time with helpful discussion questions and bibliography. All of the chapters have been revised and updated.

Author : Van Rensselaer Potter
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014009868

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Bioethics: Bridge to the Future by Van Rensselaer Potter Pdf

Author : Richard D. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 020370097X

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The Biology of Moral Systems by Richard D. Alexander Pdf

Author : Dagmar Schipanski,Nikolaus Knoepffler,S L Sorgner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351929530

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Humanbiotechnology as Social Challenge by Dagmar Schipanski,Nikolaus Knoepffler,S L Sorgner Pdf

Humanbiotechnology has progressed immensely, and humanbiotechnological research has entered a crucial stage. This collection of essays is a significant and original contribution to the public debate on humanbiotechnology and its ethical and social ramifications. Interdisciplinary in composition this volume brings together leading academics in the fields of biology, law, theology, ethics and sociology to share their viewpoints and insights and to promote exchange between disciplines and convey facts and opinions to the wider public on this increasingly important area of technological development and ethical interest. Eschewing analysis on pragmatic or utilitarian grounds the essays in this collection are informed by the key ethical concept of 'human dignity' which has been central to the continental debate on human bioethics and is gaining in importance for the debate in the anglophone world.

Author : Giovanni Boniolo,Gabriele De Anna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139458412

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Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology by Giovanni Boniolo,Gabriele De Anna Pdf

How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other topics. They offer deep insights into the origin and purpose of human moral capacities and of moral systems.