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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Düwell, Marcus (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mieth, Dietmar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 39
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Contingency of Life and the Ethical
• The Value of Natural Contingency
• Between Natural Necessity and Ethical Contingency
• Of Poststructuralist Ethics and Nomadic Subjects
• Genetics, a Practical Anthropology
• Science, Religion, and Contingency
• Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences
• Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood
• Human Cognitive Vulnerability and the Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus
• Needs and the Metaphysics of Rights
• The Authority of Desire in Medicine
• Procreative Needs and Rights
• Needs, Capacities and Morality
• Moral Judgement and Moral Reasoning
• Philosophical Reflection on Bioethics and Limits
• Cases of Limits
• Finite Lives and Unlimited Medical Aspirations
• Reproductive Choice: Whose Rights? Whose Freedom?
• Assisted Reproduction and the Changing of the Human Body
• On the Limits of Liberal Bioethics
• The Human Embryo as Clinical Tool
• The Naked Emperor
• Abilities and Disabilities
• Disability: Suffering, Social Oppression, or Complex Predicament?
• Disability and Moral Philosophy: Difference Should Count
• Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability
• Others’ Views: Intercultural Perspectives
• Normative Relations: East Asian on Biomedicine and Bioethics
• Limits of Human Existence According to China’s Bioethics
• There is the World, and there is the Map of the World
• Reflections on Human Dignity and the Israeli Cloning Debate
• Conceiving of Human Life
• Globalization and the Dynamic Role of Human Rights in Relation to a Common Perspective for Life Sciences.