The Contingent Nature of Life Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Düwell, Marcus (Editor), Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (Editor), Mieth, Dietmar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 39
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Medical laws and legislation.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Medical Law.

Life and nature are imperfect, uncontrollable, and largely (and perhaps permanently) unknowable, that is to say: contingent. The contingency of life is a significant challenge for medicine and technology. Life sciences seem to broaden the possibilities of control to an extent that the contingency of...