The Biological Foundations of Bioethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-871265-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subjects them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement, the risks of technical progress, the alleged moral threat of synthetic biology, the reality of human nature, the relevance of evolutionary psychology to social policy, the nature of the distinction between health and disease, and justice in healthcare decision-making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewens, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: The Biological Foundations of Bioethics

- Part One: Bettering Nature

- 2: Enhancement and Human Nature: The Case of Sandel

- 3: The Risks of Progress: Precaution and the Case of Human Enhancement

- 4: Human Nature: The Very Idea

- 5: From Bricolage to Biobricks (TM): Synthetic Biology and Rational Design

- 6: Origins, Parents, and Non-Identity

- Part Two: Biology in Ethics and Political Philosophy

- 7: Development Aid: On Ontogeny and Ethics

- 8: Prospects for Evolutionary Policy

- 9: What are Natural Inequalities?

- 10: Foot Note

- 11: Health, Naturalism, and Policy

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Lewens is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Clare College. His past publications include Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (MIT Press, 2004), and Darwin (Routledge, 2007). He is also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and runs the ERC-funded project 'A Science of Human Nature? Philosophical Disputes at the Interface of Natural and Social Sciences'.