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A life-centered approach to bioethics : biocentric ethics /
"This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Backgrounds: 2. Some background: self and reason; 3. Some background: approaches to ethics; 4. Some background: our good; 5. Elusive lines, slippery slopes, and moral principles
- Part II. Life, Death, and Bioethics: 6. Being alive; 7. Being healthy; 8. Health and virtue; 9. Death and life; 10. Drawing lines with death; 11. Double effect: euthanasia, and proportionality; 12. Abortion; 13. The gene I: the mystique; 14. The gene II: manipulation; 15. Ethics and biomedical research; 16. Bioethics seen in an eastern light; 17. Toward a wider view.