Bioethics And Secular Humanism
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| Author | : H. Tristram Engelhardt |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725231131 |
Bioethics is vitally important in our day because it represents the critical expression of interest in the proper use of medical science to provide health care. Secular humanism is important because it is a central factor in constructing a common morality that does not make special appeal to such things as religious assumptions. The argument of this book, therefore, will be of profound interest to all who are concerned for the well-being of humanity in today's world. Imagine, the author says, Roman Catholics and committed atheists disputing over proper abortion policies. Imagine individuals who wish to organize a for-profit surrogate mother service, confronting individuals who view such endeavors as exploitation of women. To what moral premise do they appeal? Are power and influence the deciding factors, or is it possible to establish certain principles to which all may appeal? In answer, Professor Engelhardt examines the various meanings of secularity and humanism, clearly showing how complex they are. Alongside this he demonstrates the diversity of bioethics and the problems of laying a foundation for it. Based on these considerations, he identifies which ways forward are the most promising. The urgency of the task is clear. New biomedical possibilities are surfacing at the very time that demands to contain health care costs pose difficult ethical problems.
| Author | : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 1991-01-01 |
| Genre | : Bioethics |
| ISBN | : 9780334024958 |
| Author | : Inge Houtmeyers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Harley Flack |
| Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : African American philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780878405329 |
By analyzing the amalgam of Greek philosophy, Jewish and Christian teachings, and secular humanism that composes our dominant ethical system, the authors of this volume explore the question of whether or not Western and non-Western moral values can be commingled without bilateral loss of cultural integrity. They take as their philosophical point of departure the observation that both ethical relativism and ethical absolutism have become morally indefensible in the context of the multicultural American life, and they variously consider the need for an ethical middle ground.
| Author | : King-Tak IP |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2008-12-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1402089678 |
Regenerative medicine is rich with promethean promises. The use of human embryonic stem cells in research is justified by its advocates in terms of promises to cure a wide range of diseases and disabilities, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism to the results of heart attacks and spinal cord injuries. More broadly, there is the promethean allure of being able to redesign human biological nature in terms of the goals and concerns of humans. Needless to say, these allures and promises have provoked a wide range of not just moral but metaphysical reflections that reveal and reflect deep fault-lines in our cultures. The essays in this volume, directly and indirectly, present the points of controversy as they tease out the character of the moral issues that confront any attempt to develop the human regenerative technologies that might move us from a human to a post-human nature. Although one can appreciate the disputes as independently philosophical, they are surely also a function of the conflict between a Christian and a post-Christian culture, in that Christianity has from its beginning recognized a fundamental prohibition against the taking of early human life. Even the philosophical disputes that frame secular bioethics are often motivated and shaped by these background cultural conflicts. These essays display this circumstance in rich ways.
| Author | : Brendan P. Minogue |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401155305 |
This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference 'Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters direct primary attention to various aspects of Engelhardt's philosophy of medicine and bioethics as presented in The Foundations of Bioethics and Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. Among the topics treated are the economics of health care and the medical profession, the libertarian and communitarian aspects of Engelhardt's thought, the moral status of children, abortion, the moral foundations for a health care system, feminism and clinical epistemology, and the relation between secular and religious moralities. In response to the various challenges posed by the authors, Engelhardt considers the implications of the failure of the modern philosophical project, the role of reason in ethics, and the resolution of conflict among communities that do not share the same moral vision. The book will be of interest to professionals in medicine, philosophy, theology, health policy, and law, and to graduate students in those disciplines.
| Author | : Mark J. Cherry |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2006-04-11 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0306468662 |
Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis. The essays compass the views of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Christianity, as well as particular methodological approaches, such as the phenomenology of the body, natural law theory, legal theory and libertarian critique of legal theory. These discussions cluster a number of conceptually independent philosophical concerns: (1) What is the appropriate understanding of the relationship between persons and their bodies? (2) What does it mean to `own' an organ? (3) Do governments have moral authority to regulate how persons use their own body parts? (4) What are the costs and benefits of a market in human organs? Such questions are related by an urgent public health challenge: the considerable disparity between the number of patients who could significantly benefit from organ transplantation and the number of human organs available for transplantation. This volume explores the theoretical, normative, and historical foundations for alternative policies for procurement and transplantation of human organs.
| Author | : Thomas J. Connolly |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Bioethics |
| ISBN | : |
Consists of papers and reports presented during the First National Bioethical Conference, held at the University of New South Wales, Aug. 22-23, 1981.
| Author | : Ana Smith Iltis |
| Publisher | : M & M Scrivener Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0980209498 |
At the Roots of Christian Bioethics explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice. Engelhardt has been the most influential, cogent, but critical voice within bioethics of the past several decades. The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological and topical contributions to bioethics, political theory, and Christian theology. Each explores Engelhardt's diagnosis of the contemporary social and cultural crisis, seeking to make sense of the decidedly post-Christian and often openly anti-Christian ethics that dominates public morality and politic policy. Each author investigates Engelhardt's personal and tireless enquiry to secure ultimate moral foundations as well as to recognize the full implications of the results of his investigations: that Christian bioethics does not originate in human reason but in the command of God.
| Author | : Howard B. Radest |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1615928227 |
