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Bioethics in Cultural Contexts Reflections on Methods and Finitude

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (Editor), Düwell, Marcus (Editor), Mieth, Dietmar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
Subjects:
Ethics
Medicine / Research
Life Sciences
Sociology / Methodology
Biology / Research
Philosophy
Philosophy Of Medicine
Biomedical Research
Medicine / Philosophy
Moral Philosophy And Applied Ethics
Sociological Methods
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Fundamental Aspects
  • HISTORY AND FUTURE OF BIOETHICS
  • THE NEED FOR ETHICAL EVALUATION IN BIOMEDICINE AND BIOPOLITICS
  • FINITUDE – A NEGLECTED PERSPECTIVE IN BIOETHICS
  • LIMITS OF BIOETHICS
  • THE PROBLEM OF LIMITS OF LAW IN BIOETHICAL ISSUES
  • Classical Approaches
  • ONE MORAL PRINCIPLE OR MANY!
  • DANGER AND MERITS OF PRINCIPLISM Meta-theoretical Reflections on the Beauchamp/Childress- Approach to Biomedical Ethics
  • THE JOURNEY FROM ETHICS TO LAW The Case of Euthanasia
  • RECOGNITION AND RESPECT FOR PERSONS A Personalistic Interpretation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative
  • RATIONALITY IN BIOETHICS Reasonable Adjudication in a Life and Death Case of the Separation of Conjoined Twins1
  • Culture and Society
  • THE PUBLIC ROLE OF BIOETHICS AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC
  • EXPERTS ON BIOETHICS IN BIOPOLITICS
  • THE CONTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL HISTORY TO MEDICAL ETHICS The Case of Brain Death
  • ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE A Dispute on Truth, Power or Money?
  • DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDICAL ETHICS
  • Body and Identity
  • BODY, PERCEPTION AND IDENTITY
  • DISABLED EMBODIMENT AND AN ETHIC OF CARE
  • COPING WITH LIMITS Two Strategies and their Anthropological and Ethical Implications
  • Innovative Modes of Analysis
  • WHAT CAN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CONTRIBUTE TO THE STUDY OF ETHICS? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations1
  • DISCOURSE ETHICS Apel, Habermas, and Beyond
  • THE CONCEPT OF CARE ETHICS IN BIOMEDICINE The Case of Disability
  • THE THICK SOCIAL MATRIX FOR BIOETHICS Anthropological Approaches
  • NARRATIVE BIOETHICS1

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