Bioethics : For a Technological World

ISBN-13: 9783639229226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 92 str.

Erick Valdes

Opis

In the era of globalization, the author contributes to the theoretical deepening of bioethics and establishes new discursive criteria which generate a procedure that is able to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for rational discussion and making, morally and legally, correct decisions in the public space. He shows us how the inability of traditional ethics to generate moral norms generally accepted for governing techno-scientific action has made visible a very dangerous antinomy. The elucidation of this antinomy represents the consolidation of a procedural, deliberative and reasonable bioethics, based on a correct diagnosis of our age. This brief but necessary book aims to ascertain the urgency of a radical rethinking of life experience, and from this theoretical-practical exercise, points out the need to redefine the nature of contemporary moral experience, and shows that the current era requires great deliberative effort to overcome the moral dilemmas that have been planted by the technological development.

O autorze

Ph.D. He is currently working in the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University and in the Washington College of Law at American University, Washington DC, USA, where he is conducting diverse postdoctoral research in Philosophy, with concentrations in Bioethics and Biolaw. He also teaches in the School of Law at the University of Chile.