Thomas Aquinas is one of the foremost thinkers in Western philosophy and Christian scholarship, recognized as a significant voice in both theological discussions and secular philosophical debates. Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realized its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics. Jason T. Eberl applies Aquinas's views on the seminal topics of human nature and morality to key...
Thomas Aquinas is one of the foremost thinkers in Western philosophy and Christian scholarship, recognized as a significant voice in both theological ...
Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry investigates the ethics of biomedical and scientific inquiry, including embryonic research, animal research, genetic enhancement, and fairness in research in the developing world. Core concerns of biomedical and scientific research ethics are then shown also to be key in humanistic areas of inquiry. Biomedical Research and Beyond concludes with a discussion of the virtues that all inquirers, scientific, medical, and humanistic, should possess.
Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry investigates the ethics of biomedical and scientific inquiry, including embryonic r...
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse ...
'Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility' explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.
'Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility' explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding ...
Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula.
In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably...
Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizatio...
'Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics' offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues.
'Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics' offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to con...
Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to concrete applications.
Part 1 analyzes human dignity through a worldview lens, exploring the source and meaning of human dignity from naturalist, postmodernist, Protestant, and Catholic vantages, respectively, letting each side explain and defend its own conception. Part 2 moves...
Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysic...
Thomas Aquinas is one of the foremost thinkers in Western philosophy and recently scholars have used Thomism as a basis for addressing issues in bioethics. This volume offers an interpretation of his metaphysics and ethical thought and illuminates its relevance to contemporary questions in bioethics.
Thomas Aquinas is one of the foremost thinkers in Western philosophy and recently scholars have used Thomism as a basis for addressing issues in bioet...
In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the position that the overwhelming focus on opioid analgesics as a means for improving the undertreatment of pain is flawed, and argues instead that dominant Western models of biomedicine and objectivity delegitimize subjective knowledge of the body and pain in the US. This general intolerance for the...
In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the U...
'Regional Perspectives in Bioethics' illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.
'Regional Perspectives in Bioethics' illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse...
