Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice - Brossura

Lindemann, Hilde

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ISBN 10: 0521719402 ISBN 13: 9780521719407

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Naturalized bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practised. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of idealisations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional environments. These essays situate the bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and explore a number of the different kinds of power relations that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.

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“...Naturalized Bioethics is an excellent anthology, well-worth reading. Many of the issues it raises are in fact new and it deepens our understanding of concepts such as autonomy and responsibility. Also welcome is the book’s persistent focus on power issues. In this connection, I found the concluding chapter particularly good. In it, Verkerk and Lindemann plead with bioethicists to rethink their own professional identity. Bioethicists are not ethics experts in the sense of being more morally right or morally good than other people...Bioethicists are the enablers of moral conversation. It may begin with them, but it should not end with them -- at least not in the real/natural world in which we actually live.”
Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Descrizione del libro

Naturalized Bioethics calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. The book helps bioethicists and health care professionals to address the ethical issues surrounding health care.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521719402
• ISBN 13: 9780521719407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 292