The foundation of bioethics / / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815463203321
• Autore: Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-770675-4; 0-19-993948-9
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetti: Medical ethics; Bioethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous edition: 1986.; Includes index.; Previously issued in print: 1996.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; 1. Introduction: bioethics as a plural noun; Bioethics in the face of moral pluralism; Bioethics and postmodernity; Politics, morality, and bioethics; Bioethics in the ruins; Toleration in the face of moral diversity; 2. The Intellectual Bases of Bioethics; Varieties of ethics; The problem of objectivity in morals; Problems in justifying a particular moral viewpoint; Attempts to justify a content-full secular ethics: why they all fail; At the brink of nihilism; The way out of nihilism: saving the moral legitimacy of secular bioethics; Moral authority in postmodernity: legitimating health care policyMorality and bioethics for friends; morality and bioethics for strangers; Communities, secularity, and bioethics: providing health care in a morally fragmented world; The strangeness of moral strangers; The health professional as bureaucrat and geographer of values; Bioethics in the face of moral diversity: a summary; 3. The Principles of Bioethics; Permission and beneficence: the conflict at the roots of bioethics; The will to morality and the problem of intersubjectivity; How Kant smuggled content into his moral conclusions; The sanctions for immoralityGiving authority and content to the principle of beneficence; Justifying the principles of morality; The ; tension between the principles; The principle of justice; The principles of bioethics; Moral tension and the centrality of forbearance rights; Conflicting rights and obligations; TEYKU: the opacity of some problems to moral reasoning; 4. The Context of Health Care: Persons, Possessions, and States; The special place of persons; A bias in favor of persons?; Potentiality and probability; An excursus regarding animals; Infants, the profoundly retarded, and social senses of ""person""Severely defective newborns: weakening the protections of the social role of person; Being a person: in the strict sense and in various social senses; Sleeping persons and the problem of embodiment; Owning people, animals, and things; Endangered species, the Coliseum, and the bioethics of ecology; Ownership: a summary; States and their authority; The limited moral authority of the secular state; Toward Utopia; A postmodern reflection on property, states, and health care policy; 5. The Languages of Medicalization; Shaping reality; The four languages of medicineDisease language as evaluative; Disease language as descriptive; Disease language as explanatory; Disease language as shaping social reality; The social construction of medical reality and the challenge of clinical judgment; Seeing a problem as a medical, rather than as a legal, religious, or educational problem; The democratization of medical reality: some conclusions; 6. The Endings and Beginnings of Persons: Death, Abortion, and Infanticide; The definition of death; Bodies, minds, and persons; Embodiments; Living and dying with less than absolute certainty; The development of a whole-brain definition of death
• Sommario/riassunto: This revised second edition explores the full scope and content of secular bioethics. Such issues as abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, health care reform and distributive justice are given a new treatment within a reassessment of the possibilities for a secular bioethics.