Lawrence E. Johnson

A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9780521766265
• ISBN-10: 0521766265
• Artikelnr.: 33119161

Autorenporträt

Lawrence E. Johnson is an affiliate research fellow in the humanities at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He has also taught at West Virginia University and Flinders University. His articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including International Logic Review, the Review of Metaphysics, Environmental Ethics, the Monash Bioethics Review and the Journal of Natural History, and he has also contributed to several literary journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Backgrounds: 2. Some background: self and reason
3. Some background: approaches to ethics
4. Some background: our good
5. Elusive lines, slippery slopes, and moral principles
Part II. Life, Death, and Bioethics: 6. Being alive
7. Being healthy
8. Health and virtue
9. Death and life
10. Drawing lines with death
11. Double effect: euthanasia, and proportionality
12. Abortion
13. The gene I: the mystique
14. The gene II: manipulation
15. Ethics and biomedical research
16. Bioethics seen in an eastern light
17. Toward a wider view.

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Introduction; Part I. Backgrounds: 2. Some background: self and reason; 3. Some background: approaches to ethics; 4. Some background: our good; 5. Elusive lines, slippery slopes, and moral principles; Part II. Life, Death, and Bioethics: 6. Being alive; 7. Being healthy; 8. Health and virtue; 9. Death and life; 10. Drawing lines with death; 11. Double effect: euthanasia, and proportionality; 12. Abortion; 13. The gene I: the mystique; 14. The gene II: manipulation; 15. Ethics and biomedical research; 16. Bioethics seen in an eastern light; 17. Toward a wider view.

Rezensionen

'By conceptualizing life as a process rather than a substance, and by identifying selves as life-processes, Johnson provides us with an innovative approach to the perennial question of how we ought to live our lives. Our good is our health, and our health is an activity whose trajectory changes over the course of our lives. The effects of this sensible thesis ramify throughout a host of urgent contemporary moral issues. I strongly recommend Johnson's accessible work.' Mark H. Bernstein, Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Purdue University