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Bioethics in Cultural Contexts: Reflections on Methods and Finitude (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)
Chri Rehmann-Sutter
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Hardcover. Discusses a range of methodological issues for an interdisciplinary bioethics. This book reintroduces the existential and cultural basis on which every medicine (limits-sensitive or off-limits medicine) depends, but it concerns also ethical judgment. It also covers the apprehension of the limitations of different ethical approaches to biomedicine. Editor(s): Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (University of Basel); Duwell, Marcus; Mieth, Dieter. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 393 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 704. Reflections on Methods and Finitude. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. 396 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (University of Basel); Duwell, Marcus; Mieth, Dieter. Discusses a range of methodological issues for an interdisciplinary bioethics. This book reintroduces the existential and cultural basis on which every medicine (limits-sensitive or off-limits medicine) depends, but it concerns also ethical judgment. It also covers the apprehension of the limitations of different ethical approaches to biomedicine. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: PSAD. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 27. Weight: 704.
CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER, MARCUS DÜWELL, DIETMAR MIETH When we placed “finitude”, “limits of human existence” as a motto over a round of discussion on biomedicine and bioethics (which led to this collection of essays) we did not know how far this would lead us into methodological quandaries. However, we felt intuitively that an interdisciplinary approach including social and cultural sciences would have an advantage over a solely disciplinary (philosophical or theological) analysis. 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. Context awareness, ... Read more
CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER, MARCUS DÜWELL, DIETMAR MIETH When we placed “finitude”, “limits of human existence” as a motto over a round of discussion on biomedicine and bioethics (which led to this collection of essays) we did not know how far this would lead us into methodological quandaries. However, we felt intuitively that an interdisciplinary approach including social and cultural sciences would have an advantage over a solely disciplinary (philosophical or theological) analysis. 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. Context awareness, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Series
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402042409
SKU
V9781402042409
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