Bioethics Critically Reconsidered Having Second Thoughts /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Medicine, 100
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• A Skeptical Introduction to Bioethics - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
• I. History of Bioethics: Four Perspectives
• Beginning Bioethics – Michael S. Yesley
• The Genesis of a Totalizing Ideology: Bioethics’ Inner Hippie – Griffin Trotter
• Bioethics and Professional Medical Ethics: Mapping and Managing an Uneasy Relationship – Laurence B. McCullough
• Two Rival Understandings of Autonomy: Paternalism, and Bioethical Principlism – Aaron E. Hinkley
• II. The Practice of Bioethics and Clinical Ethics Consultation: Three Views
• Bioethics as Political Ideology – Mark J. Cherry
• The “s” in Bioethics: Past, Present and Future – Ana S. Iltis and Adrienne Carpenter
• Why Clinical Bioethics So Rarely Gives Morally Normative Guidance: Some Critical Reflections – H. T. Engelhardt, Jr.
• III. The Incredible Search for Bioethical Professionalism: Some Final Critical Reflections on Circular Thinking
• On the Social Construction of Health Care Ethics Consultation - Jeffrey P. Bishop
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.