Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Ibero-American Bioethics PDF full book. Access full book title Ibero-American Bioethics by Léo Pessini. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Léo Pessini Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402093500 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task. Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional, post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti- tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical reflections.
Author: Léo Pessini Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402093500 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task. Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional, post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti- tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical reflections.
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS) ISBN: 9788449300318 Category : Medical Languages : es Pages : 548
Book Description
Partiendo de todos los cambios acaecidos en el terreno de la salud en las últimas décadas -que podrían resumirse en la erosión de muchas de las certidumbres tradicionales en que se asentaba la práctica médica-, el autor de este libro trata de plasmar en él una ética de los problemas biomédicos que a su vez sea capaz de dejar oír su persuasiva voz en la actual polémica acerca de cómo los hechos, las teorías y los valores se entremezclan íntimamente en los conceptos de salud y enfermedad. Cuestiones tales como los derechos de los pacientes a rechazar un tratamiento, el momento a partir del cual un feto debe tratarse como "ser humano", hasta qué punto un paciente cerebralmente muerto debe seguir considerándose "vivo", el aborto y la fecundación in vitro, e incluso las desviaciones sexuales y el transplante de órganos, son, así, objeto de un minucioso análisis que, aun siendo muy crítico y controvertido, sabe combinar la comprensión práctica de las complejidades del ejercicio de la medicina con una sofisticada plasmación de ciertas dimensiones éticas y filosóficas. Un libro que estimulará y sorprenderá muy gratamente a médicos, abogados, teólogos, filósofos y, en general, a todas aquellas personas interesadas por los problemas bioéticos.
Author: Fernando Lolas Stepke Publisher: Editorial Universitaria ISBN: 9789561115248 Category : Bioethics Languages : en Pages : 90
Book Description
This book presents bioethics as a discipline incorporating moral considerations into medicine and the biological sciences. Making use of classical examples of scientific and technical progress that have changed human life by generating new dilemmas, this book underscores the value of dialog as tool of analysis.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 336
Author: Adela Cortina Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317073444 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 351
Book Description
Examining the theoretical and empirical status of applied ethics, this volume demonstrates how a pluralistic and democratic society can deal with ethical issues in the light of its moral conscience. The volume first sets the stage for a conception of applied ethics as applications of transnational civil ethics, based both on a discourse theory of knowledge (Apel, Habermas), and on an activities and capabilities approach (Aristotle, Sen). It then examines how applied ethics relates to important theoretical discussions in philosophy such as constructivism, virtue ethics, hermeneutic and deliberative theory. The contributors discuss applied ethics in light of globalization and identify recurring dilemmas as well as the problem of universal norms. They close by considering two aspects of the institutional point of view - republicanism, and contractarianism and constitutional economics.
Author: Brendan P. Minogue Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401155305 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
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: Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1463414129 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 435
Book Description
HIV/AIDS constitutes a global problem. A good number of scholars from different nationalities, multiple rationalities, religious sensibilities, theological intelligibilities and ethical, cultural, and ecclesiastical backgrounds have affirmed that this worldwide quagmire constitutes a global health problem and social malady which does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread. The global nature of HIV/AIDS as seen in the statistics does not however undermine the fact that the effects of this sickness are not felt proportionally from one nation to another. This book proposes to situate the local as a veritable site of empowerment for communities dealing with HIV/AIDS, as it is the case with the African continent. The author of this book, over and above the way the problem of HIV/AIDS has been constructed, projected, and reviewed, decided to situate this epidemic of the 20th Century within the socio-cultural and political context of the Nigerian nation with particular reference to the Igbo people. The task of contextualizing this problem reveal the identity of the author as an Igbo, and as a theologian, who engages the indigenous ethical principles, unsophisticated traditional wisdom, cultural and religious values of his people in offering solutions that resonate the cultural identity of his people in dialogue with modern and post-modern constructs.
Author: Peckham, Stephen Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1847421024 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
This book examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate.
Author: Irene Cambra-Badii Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1003828949 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges. In this sense, the target audience can be from diverse disciplines: life and medical sciences, law, philosophy, psychology, and education. The book will be useful to high school students, in their first contacts with bioethics, college students, teachers and researchers, and the general public interested in these controversial debates of the past, present and future of bioethics.
Author: Léo Pessini
Author: Léo Pessini
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt
Author: Fernando Lolas Stepke
Author: 
Author: Adela Cortina
Author: Brendan P. Minogue
Author: Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku
Author: Peckham, Stephen
Author: Gloria Sierra Uribe
Author: Irene Cambra-Badii