Insistent life : principles for bioethics in the Jain tradition /
"Insistent Life is the first full-length interdisciplinary treatment of the foundational principles and principles of application for engaging contemporary bioethics within the Jain tradition. The book fills a significant gap in both the fields of bioethics and Jain studies since Jainism, perha...
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Why Jainism and bioethics?
- Life, non-life, and karma
- Nonviolence and the framework of Jain ethics
- Jainism's evolving view of medicine
- Potentials of (re)birth
- Wages of life
- Calculations of death.