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Bioethics and Secular Humanism

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725231131
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Bioethics and Secular Humanism written by H. Tristram Engelhardt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethics is vitally important in our day because it represents the critical expression of interest in the proper use of medical science to provide health care. Secular humanism is important because it is a central factor in constructing a common morality that does not make special appeal to such things as religious assumptions. The argument of this book, therefore, will be of profound interest to all who are concerned for the well-being of humanity in today's world. Imagine, the author says, Roman Catholics and committed atheists disputing over proper abortion policies. Imagine individuals who wish to organize a for-profit surrogate mother service, confronting individuals who view such endeavors as exploitation of women. To what moral premise do they appeal? Are power and influence the deciding factors, or is it possible to establish certain principles to which all may appeal? In answer, Professor Engelhardt examines the various meanings of secularity and humanism, clearly showing how complex they are. Alongside this he demonstrates the diversity of bioethics and the problems of laying a foundation for it. Based on these considerations, he identifies which ways forward are the most promising. The urgency of the task is clear. New biomedical possibilities are surfacing at the very time that demands to contain health care costs pose difficult ethical problems.

Bioethics and Secular Humanism

Author : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780334024958
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Bioethics and Secular Humanism written by Hugo Tristram Engelhardt and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At the Roots of Christian Bioethics

Author : Ana Smith Iltis
Publisher : M & M Scrivener Press
ISBN 13 : 0980209498
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book At the Roots of Christian Bioethics written by Ana Smith Iltis and published by M & M Scrivener Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Roots of Christian Bioethics explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice. Engelhardt has been the most influential, cogent, but critical voice within bioethics of the past several decades. The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological and topical contributions to bioethics, political theory, and Christian theology. Each explores Engelhardt's diagnosis of the contemporary social and cultural crisis, seeking to make sense of the decidedly post-Christian and often openly anti-Christian ethics that dominates public morality and politic policy. Each author investigates Engelhardt's personal and tireless enquiry to secure ultimate moral foundations as well as to recognize the full implications of the results of his investigations: that Christian bioethics does not originate in human reason but in the command of God.

Reading Engelhardt

Author : Brendan P. Minogue
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401155305
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Reading Engelhardt written by Brendan P. Minogue and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference 'Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters direct primary attention to various aspects of Engelhardt's philosophy of medicine and bioethics as presented in The Foundations of Bioethics and Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. Among the topics treated are the economics of health care and the medical profession, the libertarian and communitarian aspects of Engelhardt's thought, the moral status of children, abortion, the moral foundations for a health care system, feminism and clinical epistemology, and the relation between secular and religious moralities. In response to the various challenges posed by the authors, Engelhardt considers the implications of the failure of the modern philosophical project, the role of reason in ethics, and the resolution of conflict among communities that do not share the same moral vision. The book will be of interest to professionals in medicine, philosophy, theology, health policy, and law, and to graduate students in those disciplines.

Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships

Author : Mark J. Cherry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306468662
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships written by Mark J. Cherry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis. The essays compass the views of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Christianity, as well as particular methodological approaches, such as the phenomenology of the body, natural law theory, legal theory and libertarian critique of legal theory. These discussions cluster a number of conceptually independent philosophical concerns: (1) What is the appropriate understanding of the relationship between persons and their bodies? (2) What does it mean to `own' an organ? (3) Do governments have moral authority to regulate how persons use their own body parts? (4) What are the costs and benefits of a market in human organs? Such questions are related by an urgent public health challenge: the considerable disparity between the number of patients who could significantly benefit from organ transplantation and the number of human organs available for transplantation. This volume explores the theoretical, normative, and historical foundations for alternative policies for procurement and transplantation of human organs.

Health Care in Crisis

Author : Thomas J. Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Health Care in Crisis written by Thomas J. Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of papers and reports presented during the First National Bioethical Conference, held at the University of New South Wales, Aug. 22-23, 1981.

African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics

Author : Harley Flack
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878405329
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics written by Harley Flack and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing the amalgam of Greek philosophy, Jewish and Christian teachings, and secular humanism that composes our dominant ethical system, the authors of this volume explore the question of whether or not Western and non-Western moral values can be commingled without bilateral loss of cultural integrity. They take as their philosophical point of departure the observation that both ethical relativism and ethical absolutism have become morally indefensible in the context of the multicultural American life, and they variously consider the need for an ethical middle ground.

Secular Bioethics in Theological Perspective

Author : E.E. Shelp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400901194
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Secular Bioethics in Theological Perspective written by E.E. Shelp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologians and theologically educated participants in discussions of bioethics have been placed on the defensive during recent years. The dominance of religious perspectives and theological voices that marked the emergence and establishment of "bioethics" in the late 1960s and 1970s has eroded steadily as philosophers, lawyers, and others have relativized their role and influ ence, at best, or dismissed it entirely, at worst. The secularization of bioethics, which has occurred for a variety of reasons, has prompted some prominent writers to reflect on what has been lost. Daniel Callahan, for example writes, " . . . whatever the ultimate truth status of religious perspectives, they have provided a way of looking at the world and understanding one's own life that has a fecundity and uniqueness not matched by philosophy, law, or political theory. Those of us who have lost our reli gious faith may be glad that we have discovered what we take to be the reality of things, but we can still recognize that we have also lost something of great value as well: the faith, vision, insights, and experience of whole peoples and traditions who, no less than we unbelievers, struggled to make sense of things. That those goods are part of a garment we no longer want to wear does not make their loss anything other than still a loss; and it is not a neglible one" ([2], p. 2).

Biomedical Ethics

Author : Howard B. Radest
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615928227
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Biomedical Ethics written by Howard B. Radest and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedical ethics raises a host of humanistic issues. Among these are human dignity, personal autonomy, quality of life, and access to care for all. Now, more than ever, scientific discoveries and medical technologies prompt us to rethink older perspectives. Humanists have an unprecedented opportunity to shape the moral agenda of the future.In this collection of thoughtful articles from the Humanist Institute, humanist scholars from various fields explore a number of critical issues in bioethics. The moral status of the human embryo, scientific medicine versus Eastern concepts of caregiving, the human genome project, eugenics, contraception, and the economics of healthcare are just some of the topics considered in this enlightening volume.The contributors include: Berit Brogaard, Vern Bullough, Carmela Epright, Faith Lagay, Mason Olds, Howard B. Radest, Philip Regal, Andreas S. Rosenberg, Harvey Sarles, David Schafer, Robert B. Tapp, Stephen P. Weldon, and Michael Werner.For students of ethics, healthcare practitioners and policy makers, and everyone who wishes to participate intelligently in decisions involving cure and care, this work is of great value.Howard B. Radest (Hilton Head, SC) is an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, Dean Emeritus of the Humanist Institute, Chair of the Biomedical Ethics Committee of Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, consultant to the Ethics committee of the South Carolina Medical Association, and consultant to the Center for Public Health Preparedness, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. His most recent book is From Clinic to Classroom: Medical Ethics and Moral Education.

Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199553645
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Humanism: A Very Short Introduction written by Stephen Law and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanism--though a rejection of religion--nevertheless provides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives.-publisher description.

Duties to Others

Author : Courtney Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780792326380
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Duties to Others written by Courtney Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-05-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'. Duties to Others begins to correct this imbalance in our ethical language through theoretical expositions of the ideas of duty and of the `other', and by applied exemplifications of particular duties to identified others that arise in the context of health care. A pronounced multidisciplinary orientation informs this analysis of our moral call to respond to the needs of others. The essays in this volume offer a stimulating intellectual freshness through a continual engagement of theological, professional, and philosophical understandings of the duties that arise in our relationships with others in medicine, nursing, and social contexts. Duties to Others provides provocative challenges about the terrain of our moral world for both students and professionals in biomedical ethics, medicine, philosophy, and theology.

Health Care Ethics

Author : Benedict M. Ashley, OP
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013377
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Health Care Ethics written by Benedict M. Ashley, OP and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture and tested by individual experience; however, its basis in real medical experience makes this book a valuable resource for anyone with a general interest in health care ethics. This fifth edition, which includes important contributions by Jean deBlois, C.S.J., considers everyday ethical questions and dilemmas in clinical care and deals more deeply with issues of women's health, mental health, sexual orientation, artificial reproduction, and the new social issues in health care. The authors devote special attention to the various ethical theories currently in use in the United States while clearly presenting a method of ethical decision making based in the Catholic tradition. They discuss the needs of the human person, outlining what it means to be human, both as an individual and as part of a community. This volume has been significantly updated to include new discussions of recent clinical innovations and theoretical issues that have arisen in the field: • the Human Genome Project• efforts to control sexual selection of infants• efforts to genetically modify the human genotype and phenotype• the development of palliative care as a medical specialty• the acceptance of non-heart beating persons as organ donors• embryo development and stem cell research• reconstructive and cosmetic surgery• nutrition and obesity• medical mistakes• the negative effects of managed care on the patient-physician relationship• recent papal allocution regarding care of patients in a persistent vegetative state and palliative care for dying patients

Secular Humanism

Author : Paul F. Kisak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781975901899
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Secular Humanism written by Paul F. Kisak and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Humanity Without Politics, Religion, Dogma or Ritual "Secular humanism embraces the common humanity of the human race. In general, Secular Humanism promotes human reason, ethics, social justice, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making. Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or a god. It does not, however, assume that humans are either inherently evil or innately good, nor does it present humans as being superior to nature. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions. Fundamental to the concept of secular humanism is the strongly held viewpoint that ideology-be it religious or political-must be thoroughly examined by each individual and not simply accepted or rejected on faith. Along with this, an essential part of secular humanism is a continually adapting search for truth, primarily through science and philosophy. Many secular humanists derive their moral codes from a philosophy of utilitarianism, ethical naturalism, or evolutionary ethics, and some advocate a science of morality.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.

The Foundations of Bioethics

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195057368
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Bioethics written by H. Tristram Engelhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.

The Interaction of Catholic Bioethics and Secular Society

Author : Russell Edward Smith
Publisher : Braintree, Mass. : Pope John Center
ISBN 13 : 9780935372342
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The Interaction of Catholic Bioethics and Secular Society written by Russell Edward Smith and published by Braintree, Mass. : Pope John Center. This book was released on 1992 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Health Policy, Ethics, and Human Values

Author : Zbigniew Bańkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Policy, Ethics, and Human Values written by Zbigniew Bańkowski and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science and Ethics

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Ethics written by Paul Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a unique collection of authors who generally maintain that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring new ethical principles into social awareness.