LEADER 05146nam 2200709uu 450 001 9910815463203321 005 20230421030213.0 010 $a0-19-770675-4 010 $a0-19-993948-9 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195057362.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)3710000000506747 035 $a(EBL)931247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001569079 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16217756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001569079 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13901338 035 $a(PQKB)11571573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL931247 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11304380 035 $a(OCoLC)930059304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC931247 035 $a(OCoLC)1406782813 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197706756 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000506747 100 $a19960212e20231996 |y | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe foundation of bioethics /$fH. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr$b[electronic resource] 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (465 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPrevious edition: 1986. 300 $aIncludes index. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 1996. 311 $a0-19-505736-8 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aMoral 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aInfants, 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aThe development of a whole-brain definition of death 330 8 $aThis revised second edition explores the full scope and content of secular bioethics. Such issues as abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, health care reform and distributive justice are given a new treatment within a reassessment of the possibilities for a secular bioethics. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aMedical ethics 606 $aBioethics 615 0$aMedical ethics. 615 0$aBioethics. 676 $a174.2 700 $aEngelhardt$b H. Tristram$g(Hugo Tristram),$f1941-$046590 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUk 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815463203321 996 $aThe foundation of bioethics$94151087 997 $aUNINA