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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Donaldson, Brianne (Author), Bajželj, Ana, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.