Global bioethics : the collapse of consensus / edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018.

Series:

Conflicts and trends.

Conflicts and trends

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Ethics.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Place of Publication:

Salem, MA : M & M Scrivener Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus explores the persistent failure to produce a universal set of standards for bioethics. The predicament of contemporary morality, the post-modern condition, is such that we find ourselves in the position of numerous competing moralities that not only reach conflicting judgments about particular issues, but also reflect radically divergent world-views. Consensus, therefore, is impossible to achieve. These essays analyze and diagnose the causes and results of the diversity of moral world-views in both philosophy and everyday life. Some of the essays in this volume argue that the post-modern condition is actually the direct result of the philosophical-theological synthesis of the Western Christian Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore the difficulties, both procedural and contentful, that have arisen from the failure of various attempts to arrive at a global secular bioethics by means of rational-discursive reflection.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Global Bioethics: An Introduction to the Collapse of Consensus""; ""The Search for a Global Morality: Bioethics, the Culture Wars, and Moral Diversity""; ""Implementing Health Care Rights Versus Imposing Health Care Cultures: The Limits of Tolerance, Kant�s Rationality, and the Moral Pitfalls of International Bioethics Standardization""; ""Preserving the Possibility for Liberty in Health Care""; ""Manifesto: Moral Diversity in Health Care Ethics""; ""A Confucian Approach to a “Shared Family Decision Model� in Health Care: Reflections on Moral Pluralism""

""Lost in Translation� Bridging Gaps through Procedural Norms: Comments on the Papers of Capaldi and Tao""""Struggling for Consensus and Living Without It: The Construction of a Common European Bioethics""; ""Perspectives for Freedom of Choice in Bioethics and Health Care in Europe""; ""Bioethics: Globalization, Communitization, or Localization?""; ""The Bioethics of Global Biomedicine: A Natural Law Reflection""; ""Domestic Disarray and Imperial Ambition: Contemporary Applied Ethics and the Prospects for Global Bioethics""; ""Global and Particular Bioethics""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-90289-2

9786610902897

0-9802094-3-9

1-4294-5685-X

OCLC:

923251282