Fragmentation and Consensus: Communitarian and Casuist Bioethics - Brossura

Kuczewski, Mark G.

 
9780878407545: Fragmentation and Consensus: Communitarian and Casuist Bioethics
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ISBN 10: 0878407545 ISBN 13: 9780878407545
Casa editrice: Georgetown Univ Pr, 1999

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Both communitarianism and casuistry have sought to restore ethics as a practical science—the former by incorporating various traditions into a shared definition of the common good, the latter by considering the circumstances of each situation through critical reasoning.

Mark G. Kuczewski analyzes the origins and methods of these two approaches and forges from them a new unified approach. This approach takes the communitarian notion of the person as its starting point but also relies upon the narrative and analogical tools of case-based reasoning. He separates out the rhetoric that is incongruent with the Aristotelian aspirations of each method to show that the two are complementary, and that consensus can emerge from fragmentation.

He then applies his resulting method to three major problems in bioethics: the difficulties that the issue of personal identity poses for advance directives, the role of the family in medical decision making, and the refusal of treatment because of religious beliefs. He analyzes the need to assume a communitarian notion of the person as a starting point for the application of casuistic insights.

Combining theoretical, practical, and scholarly insights, this book will be of interest to philosophers, political and social scientists, and bioethicists.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mark G. Kuczewski is an assistant professor of bioethics and director of graduate studies at the Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. He is the former associate director of the Consortium Ethics Program at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics.

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Editore
Georgetown Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0878407545
ISBN 13 
9780878407545
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
190
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780878406487: Fragmentation and Consensus: Communitarian and Casuist Bioethics

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0878406484 ISBN 13:  9780878406487
Casa editrice: Georgetown Univ Pr, 1997
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