The Birth of Ethics: Phenomenological Reflections on Life's Beginnings

ISBN-13: 9780367560652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 128 str.

Michael Van Manen

Opis

Michael van Manen explores these ethical moral complexities and conceptualizations of life’s beginnings. He delves into perennial and contemporary aspects of conception, pregnancy, and birth to present ethics as a fundamental phenomenon in the experiential encounter between parent and child.

Spis treści

Introduction. Section I Before a Child is Born. Conceiving Ethics. Pregnant with Child. Ultrasound Imaging and Virtual Presence. Nascent Expectations and Hope. Meaningful Outcomes. Section II In the Cradle of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Newborn Encounters. Technics of Touch. Skin-to-Skin Togetherness. Imaging the Child. Attachment and Responsibility. Section III Ethics and Decisions Situating Decisions. Decisions Without Choices. Looking for Ways Out of Decisions. Thinking and Feeling Through Decisions. Decisions and Indecisions. Falling into Decisions. Conclusions and Beginnings. Ethical Moral Perspectives. References