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The foundation of bioethics / / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr [[electronic resource]]
| The foundation of bioethics / / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941-> |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (465 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174.2 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Medical ethics
Bioethics |
| ISBN |
0-19-770675-4
0-19-993948-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
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Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941->
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| New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The foundations of Christian bioethics [[electronic resource] /] / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr
| The foundations of Christian bioethics [[electronic resource] /] / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr |
| Autore | Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lisse (Netherlands) ; ; Exton, Pa., : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Medical ethics
Christian ethics Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-78158-4
9786611781583 0-9802094-6-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454509303321 |
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Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941->
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| Lisse (Netherlands) ; ; Exton, Pa., : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The foundations of Christian bioethics [[electronic resource] /] / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr
| The foundations of Christian bioethics [[electronic resource] /] / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr |
| Autore | Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lisse (Netherlands) ; ; Exton, Pa., : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Medical ethics
Christian ethics Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| ISBN |
1-281-78158-4
9786611781583 0-9802094-6-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782020203321 |
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Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941->
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| Lisse (Netherlands) ; ; Exton, Pa., : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The foundations of Christian bioethics / / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr
| The foundations of Christian bioethics / / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr |
| Autore | Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lisse (Netherlands) ; ; Exton, Pa., : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Medical ethics
Christian ethics Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| ISBN |
1-281-78158-4
9786611781583 0-9802094-6-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Biblical Quotations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- From Christian Bioethics to Secular Bioethics: The Establishment of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Morality -- Can Morality be Sectarian? -- Christian Bioethics: Confused and Eclipsed -- Christian vs. Secular Bioethics: The Disappearance of a Difference -- Moral Crises and the Medieval Faith in Reason -- From the Reformation and the Enlightenment to Secular Bioethics -- The Enlightenment and its Dirty Hands -- Faith in Secular Rationality Unshaken: Secular Medical Ethics and the Medical Humanities -- Why a Canonical, Content-full Secular Bioethics Cannot be Justified in General Secular Terms: Content Requires Assumptions -- From a Libertarian to a Liberal Cosmopolitan: The Background of Post-Traditional Christianity -- Christian Bioethics Reconsidered -- Notes -- At the Roots of Bioethics: Reason, Faith, and the Unity of Morality -- Religious and Secular Ethics: Rethinking the Project of Morality -- Pluralism and Conflict in Ethics and Bioethics: The Right, the Good, the Particular, and God -- Immanuel Kant and his As-If God -- The Necessity of Contingency: Hegel and the Justification of Moral Particularity -- Rationality, Belief, and Kierkegaard: Being a Christian in the Post-Christian Age -- Reason, Faith, and Bioethics -- Notes -- Christian Bioethics as a Human Project: Taking Immanence Seriously -- The Enlightenment's Bequest -- Knowledge, Morality, and Religion as Limited Human Projects -- Three Visions of the Secular Cosmopolis: Living in a World Deaf to God -- Christianity Transformed: Towards a Christian Bioethics Without Transcendence -- Christian Bioethics Reconsidered -- Notes -- Bioethics and Transcendence: At the Heart of the Culture Wars -- Sects, Cults, Fundamentalism, and Traditional Christian Bioethics -- From Discursive Reason to Spiritual Change.
Disbelief: A Moral Choice, not a Miscalculation -- Christian Bioethics: The Knowledge of the Heart and the Natural Law -- Nature, Natural Law, and the Fall -- Moral and Theological Knowledge as a Spiritual Journey -- Christian Bioethics and Theological Knowledge -- Moral Theology, Christian Bioethics, and the Community of Knowers -- Knowing Truly: Bishops, Councils, Popes, and Prophets -- Two Senses of Theology, Two Senses of Christian Bioethics -- Bioethics in Time and with Persons -- Notes -- Procreation: Reproduction, Cloning, Abortion, and Birth -- Out of Step: The Traditional Christian Bioethics of Sexuality versus the Emerging Secular Liberal Cosmopolitan Consensus -- Bioethics as a Lived Ethics -- The Mystery of Marriage -- Sexuality: Rightly and Wrongly Directed -- The Fruitful Union of Adam and Eve: Seeking Help to Reproduce -- Cloning, Making Embryos, and Using Embryos -- Contraception and a World Well Populated -- Sterilization, Sex-change Operations, Alterations in Sexual Identity, and Genetic Engineering -- Premarital Sex, Contraception for the Unmarried, and AIDS -- Abortion, Miscarriage, and Birth -- Summary: Why a Christian Bioethics of Reproduction is so Strange -- Notes -- Suffering, Disease, Dying, and Death: The Search for Meaning -- What Does it All Mean? Facing Finitude -- Death, Temptation, and Sin: The Cosmic Narrative -- Against Medicine as an Idol: Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment -- Why This is all so Different -- Suicide and Euthanasia -- Death and Transplantation -- Miracles, Sins, Devils, and Forgiveness -- Notes -- Providing Health Care: Consent, Conflicts of Interest, the Allocation of Medical Resources, and Religious Integrity -- Putting Medicine in its Place: Health and the Pursuit of Salvation -- Consent, Deceit, and Physicians: Free and Informed Consent Reconsidered. Providing Health Care in a Post-Christian Age -- Quarantining and Secularizing Christianity: Religion as a Private Matter -- The Integrity of Christian Health Care Institutions -- Notes -- Christian Bioethics in a Post-Christian World -- Living after Christendom -- Will Austin, Texas, be the Fourth Rome? When will the Orthodox Mounted Posse Ride into Constantinople and Restore the Second Rome? Would St. Autonomous Burn down Abortion Clinics? How Can One Teach Bioethics? -- Notes -- Index. |
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Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941->
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| Lisse (Netherlands) ; ; Exton, Pa., : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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