Bioethics in Cultural Contexts [electronic resource] : Reflections on Methods and Finitude

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Tác giả: Marcus Düwell, Dietmar Mieth, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

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ISBN-13: 978-1402042416

Ký hiệu phân loại: 570 Life sciences Biology

Thông tin xuất bản: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.

Mô tả vật lý: VII, 369 p. , online resource.

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

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Bioethics, if it is to have adequate discriminatory power, should include sensitivity to the cultural contexts of biomedicine, and also to the cultural contexts of bioethics itself. Biomedical developments carry with them social and cultural meanings that must be taken into account if the accompanying bioethical dilemmas are to be understood. This book discusses a range of methodological issues for an interdisciplinary bioethics. How can bioethics be an enterprise that does not only isolate issues and moral reasons but also (re)contextualises them? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different traditional and innovative modes of ethical work in terms of these tasks? By introducing the term "finitude" in the sense of limits of human existence, limits of human knowledge and knowledge capacity, a difference was set in the cultural apprehension of medicine. Is medicine aimed at overcoming our existential limits: to fight diseases and prolong life? Finitude reintroduces the existential and cultural basis on which every medicine (limits-sensitive or off-limits medicine) depends, but it concerns also ethical judgment. An apprehension of the limitations of different ethical approaches to biomedicine, however, could strengthen the collaborative effort of an interdisciplinary bioethics that embraces also cultural studies and social sciences.
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