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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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815463203321 |
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 [[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-9910815990203321 |
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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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