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| Title:
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BIOETHICS CRITICALLY RECONSIDERED
HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS |
| By: |
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9400794940 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789400794948 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
25 January, 2014 |
| Edition: |
2012 ed. |
| Series: |
Philosophy and Medicine 100 |
| Pages: |
202 |
| Description: |
Focusing on the role of social and political ideology in the development of bioethics, this book offers offers a retrospective look at the ideological foundations of the discipline, and a range of perspectives on the current influence of ideology in bioethics. |
| Synopsis: |
Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics. In the context of this moral vacuum, bioethics came into existence. Its raison d'etre was opposition to the alleged paternalism of the medical community and traditional moral frameworks, yet at the same time it set itself up as a source of moral authority with respect to biomedical decision making. Bioethics serves as biopolitics in so far as it attempts to make determinations about how individuals ought to make medical decisions and then attempts to codify that in law. Progressivism and secularism are ultimately the ideology of bioethics. |
| Illustrations: |
X, 202 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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