Overview
- Examines the basic ethical notions such as desire, needs and rights in a substantial philosophical manner and elaborates the relevance of these notions to recent bioethical discussions
- Studies the relationships between the ‘contingency’ of life and the current developments in the life sciences
- Discusses the impact of the life sciences on disabilities in a broader philosophical perspective
- Studies the intercultural dimension of bioethics in a philosophical perspective
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 39)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Contingency of Life and the Ethical
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Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Contingent Nature of Life
Book Subtitle: Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence
Editors: Marcus Düwell, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Dietmar Mieth
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6764-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6762-4Published: 29 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7717-2Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6764-8Published: 19 April 2008
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 376
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Regional and Cultural Studies, Medical Law