Bioethics in cultural contexts : reflections on methods and finitude

INTRODUCTION....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
HISTORY AND FUTURE OF BIOETHICS....Pages 13-19
THE NEED FOR ETHICAL EVALUATION IN BIOMEDICINE AND BIOPOLITICS....Pages 21-43
FINITUDE – A NEGLECTED PERSPECTIVE IN BIOETHICS....Pages 45-57
LIMITS OF BIOETHICS....Pages 59-79
THE PROBLEM OF LIMITS OF LAW IN BIOETHICAL ISSUES....Pages 81-90
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
ONE MORAL PRINCIPLE OR MANY!....Pages 93-108
DANGER AND MERITS OF PRINCIPLISM Meta-theoretical Reflections on the Beauchamp/Childress- Approach to Biomedical Ethics....Pages 109-119
THE JOURNEY FROM ETHICS TO LAW The Case of Euthanasia....Pages 121-128
RECOGNITION AND RESPECT FOR PERSONS A Personalistic Interpretation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative....Pages 129-143
RATIONALITY IN BIOETHICS Reasonable Adjudication in a Life and Death Case of the Separation of Conjoined Twins 1 ....Pages 145-162
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
THE PUBLIC ROLE OF BIOETHICS AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC....Pages 165-174
EXPERTS ON BIOETHICS IN BIOPOLITICS....Pages 175-185
THE CONTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL HISTORY TO MEDICAL ETHICS The Case of Brain Death....Pages 187-196
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE A Dispute on Truth, Power or Money?....Pages 197-210
DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDICAL ETHICS....Pages 211-227
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
BODY, PERCEPTION AND IDENTITY....Pages 231-245
DISABLED EMBODIMENT AND AN ETHIC OF CARE....Pages 247-261
COPING WITH LIMITS Two Strategies and their Anthropological and Ethical Implications....Pages 263-273
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
WHAT CAN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CONTRIBUTE TO THE STUDY OF ETHICS? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations 1 ....Pages 277-298
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
DISCOURSE ETHICS Apel, Habermas, and Beyond....Pages 299-318
THE CONCEPT OF CARE ETHICS IN BIOMEDICINE The Case of Disability....Pages 319-339
THE THICK SOCIAL MATRIX FOR BIOETHICS Anthropological Approaches....Pages 341-351
NARRATIVE BIOETHICS 1 ....Pages 353-376