Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 766 g
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 766 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-536555-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC
Based on original primary and extensive secondary source materials, the book views bioethics as a complex phenomenon that is not only related to advances in modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the fundamental values and beliefs and larger moral and existential questions which American society has been collectively grappling in its courts, legislatures, and media. Although they center their analysis on U.S. bioethics, the authors also trace the field's international spread, including case studies of bioethics in France and Pakistan - two of the many societies in which it has developed. While recognizing the intellectual, moral and sociological importance of American bioethics, they are critical of certain of its characteristics, and concerned about their implications-especially the problems of thinking socially, culturally, and internationally that have existed since bioethics' inception; the field's "tenuous interdisciplinarity"; and the extent to which the "culture wars" on the larger American scene have recently penetrated it.
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction. The Team of Two: Observing Bioethics
- Part I. Taking Root in the American Landscape
- 1: The Coming of Bioethics
- 2: The Coming of Bioethicists
- 3: Choices on our Conscience: The Inauguration of The Kennedy Institute
- 4: "Hello Dolly": Bioethics in the Media
- 5: Celebrating Bioethics and Bioethicists
- Part II. Society, Culture, and Bioethics
- 6: Thinking Socially and Culturally in Bioethics
- 7: Reminiscences of Observing Participants
- Part III. Migrations
- 8: Bioethics Circles the Globe
- 9: Bioethics in France
- 10: The Development of Bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Part IV. Taking Stock of Bioethics in the United States
- 11: The Coming of the Culture Wars to American Bioethics
- Afterword. The View from Khayelitsha and La Mancha
