The Edge of Life Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kaczor, Christopher (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Spicker, Stuart F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wildes, Kevin Wm (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Medicine ; 85
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medicine.; Medical ethics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Philosophy of Medicine.

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics resituates bioethics in fundamental outlook by challenging both the dominant Kantian and utilitarian approaches to evaluating how new technologies apply to human life. Drawing on an analysis of the dignity of the human person, both as an age...

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