Scratching the Surface of Bioethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-1006-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 144, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Values in Bioethics

Is bioethics only about medicine and health care? Law? Philosophy? Social issues? No, on all accounts. It embraces all these and more. In this book, fifteen notable scholars from the North West of England critically explore the main approaches to bioethics—and make a scratch on its polished surface.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Häyry, Matti

Takala, Tuija

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Michael Parker
Preface
Introduction Matti HÄYRY and Tuija TAKALA: What is Bioethics All About? A Start
ONE Rebecca BENNETT and Alan CRIBB: The Relevance of Empirical Research to Bioethics: Reviewing the Debate
TWO Mairi LEVITT: Better Together? Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics
THREE Tuija TAKALA: The Role of Sense and Sensibility in Bioethics
FOUR Eve GARRARD and Stephen WILKINSON: Does Bioethics Need Moral Theory?
FIVE Søren HOLM: “Parity of Reasoning” Arguments in Bioethics – Some Methodological Considerations
SIX Harry LESSER: Anne Maclean’s Criticism of Bioethics
SEVEN Peter HERISSONE-KELLY: The Principlist Approach to Bioethics, and its Stormy Journey Overseas
EIGHT Charles A. ERIN: Who Needs “the Four Principles?”
NINE Matti HÄYRY: Do Bioscientists Need Professional Ethics?
TEN John HARRIS: Pro-Life is Anti-Life: The Problematic Claims of Pro-Life Positions in Ethics
ELEVEN Simo VEHMAS: The Grounds for Preventing Impairments. A Critique
TWELVE Mark P. SHEEHAN: Deflating Autonomy
THIRTEEN Paul BARROW: Autonomy: Overworked and Under-Valued
About the Editors and Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matti Häyry is Head of the Centre for Professional Ethics and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. He has taught philosophy and bioethics in various Finnish Universities since 1985, and coordinated research projects in bioethics at the University of Helsinki. He has been a permanent adviser on bioethics to the Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health since 1991, and has participated in the work of legislative committees at the Finnish Ministries of Justice and Health. His publications include Critical Studies in Philosophical Medical Ethics (1990), Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics (1994), Playing God: Essays on Bioethics (2001), and many articles on bio-ethics and general philosophy in academic journals and edited collections.

Tuija Takala is Docent in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland and Visiting Academic at the University of Manchester. She has taught philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Kuopio in Finland. Her research interests include political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly bioethics. Her publications include Genes, Sense, and Sensibility: Philosophical Studies on the Ethics of Modern Biotechnologies (2000), and articles in Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.