1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008459400403321

Autore

Beyssade, Jean-Marie

Titolo

La philosophie premiere de Descartes : le temps et la coherence de la metaphysique / Jean-Marie Beyssade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Flammarion, [1979]

ISBN

2-08-211120-2

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 381 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Nouvelle bibliothèque scientifique

Disciplina

194

Locazione

SDI

Collocazione

SDI-2KF 261

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969468103321

Autore

Sperling Stefan <1971->

Titolo

Reasons of conscience : the bioethics debate in Germany / / Stefan Sperling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago ; ; London, : The University of Chicago Press, 2013

ISBN

9781299384590

1299384595

9780226924335

0226924335

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Classificazione

CC 7264

Disciplina

174.2

Soggetti

Bioethics - Germany

Biology - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Pretext -- 1. A Tale of Two Commissions -- 2. Disciplining Disorder -- 3. Transparent Fictions -- 4. Conscientious Objections -- 5. A Failed Experiment -- 6. Stem Cells, Interrupted -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In Reasons of Conscience, Stefan Sperling considers the bioethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research in Germany at the turn of the twenty-first century, highlighting how the country's ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today. Sperling brings the reader unmatched access to the offices of the German parliament to convey the role that morality and ethics play in contemporary Germany. He describes the separate and interactive workings of the two bodies assigned to shape German bioethics-the parliamentary Enquiry Commission on Law and Ethics in Modern Medicine and the executive branch's National Ethics Council-tracing each institution's genesis,



projected image, and operations, and revealing that the content of bioethics cannot be separated from the workings of these institutions. Sperling then focuses his discussion around three core categories-transparency, conscience, and Germany itself-arguing that without fully considering these, we fail to understand German bioethics. He concludes with an assessment of German legislators and regulators' attempts to incorporate criteria of ethical research into the German Stem Cell Law.