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Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Studies in Philosophy SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442623552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophical Perspectives on BioethicsLOC classification:
  • R724 .P46 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Professional Morality: Can an Examined Life Be Lived? -- Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals -- Morally Appreciated Circumstances: A Theoretical Problem for Casuistry -- Moral Philosophy and Bioethics: Contextualism versus the Paradigm Theory -- The Role of Principles in Practical Ethics -- Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Practice -- Bioethics through the Back Door: Phenomenology, Narratives, and Insights into Infertility -- Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist Bioethics -- Reflections of a Sceptical Bioethicist -- Theory versus Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice in Health Care -- Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility -- Moral Philosophy and Public Policy: The Case of New Reproductive Technologies -- Public Moral Discourse -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Summary: The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice.
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Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Professional Morality: Can an Examined Life Be Lived? -- Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals -- Morally Appreciated Circumstances: A Theoretical Problem for Casuistry -- Moral Philosophy and Bioethics: Contextualism versus the Paradigm Theory -- The Role of Principles in Practical Ethics -- Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Practice -- Bioethics through the Back Door: Phenomenology, Narratives, and Insights into Infertility -- Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist Bioethics -- Reflections of a Sceptical Bioethicist -- Theory versus Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice in Health Care -- Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility -- Moral Philosophy and Public Policy: The Case of New Reproductive Technologies -- Public Moral Discourse -- CONTRIBUTORS.

The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice.

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