Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

✍ Scribed by Joseph Boyle (editor); Leonard Sumner (editor)

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Professional Morality: Can an Examined Life Be Lived?
Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals
Morally Appreciated Circumstances: A Theoretical Problem for Casuistry
Moral Philosophy and Bioethics: Contextualism versus the Paradigm Theory
The Role of Principles in Practical Ethics
Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Practice
Bioethics through the Back Door: Phenomenology, Narratives, and Insights into Infertility
Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist Bioethics
Reflections of a Sceptical Bioethicist
Theory versus Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice in Health Care
Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility
Moral Philosophy and Public Policy: The Case of New Reproductive Technologies
Public Moral Discourse
Contributors

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