The Contingent Nature of Life Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence /

Life and nature are imperfect, uncontrollable, and largely (and perhaps permanently) unknowable, that is to say: contingent. The contingency of life is a significant challenge for medicine and technology. Life sciences seem to broaden the possibilities of control to an extent that the contingency of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Düwell, Marcus (Editor ), Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (Editor ), Mieth, Dietmar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 39
Temas:
Life sciences.
Ethics.
Bioethics.
Medicine-Philosophy.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Medical laws and legislation.
Life Sciences.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Philosophy of Medicine.
Regional Cultural Studies.
Medical Law.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contingency of Life and the Ethical
  • The Value of Natural Contingency
  • Between Natural Necessity and Ethical Contingency
  • Of Poststructuralist Ethics and Nomadic Subjects
  • Genetics, a Practical Anthropology
  • Science, Religion, and Contingency
  • Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences
  • Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood
  • Human Cognitive Vulnerability and the Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus
  • Needs and the Metaphysics of Rights
  • The Authority of Desire in Medicine
  • Procreative Needs and Rights
  • Needs, Capacities and Morality
  • Moral Judgement and Moral Reasoning
  • Philosophical Reflection on Bioethics and Limits
  • Cases of Limits
  • Finite Lives and Unlimited Medical Aspirations
  • Reproductive Choice: Whose Rights? Whose Freedom?
  • Assisted Reproduction and the Changing of the Human Body
  • On the Limits of Liberal Bioethics
  • The Human Embryo as Clinical Tool
  • The Naked Emperor
  • Abilities and Disabilities
  • Disability: Suffering, Social Oppression, or Complex Predicament?
  • Disability and Moral Philosophy: Difference Should Count
  • Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability
  • Others' Views: Intercultural Perspectives
  • Normative Relations: East Asian on Biomedicine and Bioethics
  • Limits of Human Existence According to China's Bioethics
  • There is the World, and there is the Map of the World
  • Reflections on Human Dignity and the Israeli Cloning Debate
  • Conceiving of Human Life
  • Globalization and the Dynamic Role of Human Rights in Relation to a Common Perspective for Life Sciences.

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