The foundations of Christian bioethics / / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr

• Autore: Engelhardt H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), <1941->
• Pubblicazione: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The foundations of Christian bioethics
• ISBN: 1-281-78158-4; 9786611781583; 0-9802094-6-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815990203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II