To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body - Rilegato

McKenny, Gerald P.

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ISBN 10: 0791434737 ISBN 13: 9780791434734

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1997

Riassunto

CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books

This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gerald P. McKenny is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and coeditor (with Edith Wyschogrod) of The Ethical.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791434737
• ISBN 13: 9780791434734
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 279
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile