Bioethics in Cultural Contexts Reflections on Methods and Finitude /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (Editor), Düwell, Marcus (Editor), Mieth, Dietmar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 28
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Social sciences.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Biomedicine general.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Philosophy, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Bioethics, if it is to have adequate discriminatory power, should include sensitivity to the cultural contexts of biomedicine, and also to the cultural contexts of bioethics itself. Biomedical developments carry with them social and cultural meanings that must be taken into account if the accompanyi...