05146nam 2200709uu 450 991081546320332120230421030213.00-19-770675-40-19-993948-910.1093/oso/9780195057362.001.0001(CKB)3710000000506747(EBL)931247(SSID)ssj0001569079(PQKBManifestationID)16217756(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001569079(PQKBWorkID)13901338(PQKB)11571573(Au-PeEL)EBL931247(CaPaEBR)ebr11304380(OCoLC)930059304(MiAaPQ)EBC931247(OCoLC)1406782813(StDuBDS)9780197706756(EXLCZ)99371000000050674719960212e20231996 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe foundation of bioethics /H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr[electronic resource]Second edition.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (465 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePrevious edition: 1986.Includes index.Previously issued in print: 1996.0-19-505736-8 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 bioethicsMoral 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 conclusionsThe 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 animalsInfants, 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 realityThe 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 certaintyThe development of a whole-brain definition of deathThis 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.Oxford scholarship online.Medical ethicsBioethicsMedical ethics.Bioethics.174.2Engelhardt H. Tristram(Hugo Tristram),1941-46590DLCDLCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910815463203321The foundation of bioethics4151087UNINA