Düwell, Marcus
The Contingent Nature of Life
Part I. Contingency of Life and the Ethical
1. The Value of Natural Contingency
Ludwig Siep
2. Between Natural Necessity and Ethical Contingency
Ahmet Hadi Adanali
3. Of Poststructuralist Ethics and Nomadic Subjects
Rosi Braidotti
4. Genetics, a Practical Anthropology
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
5. Science, Religion, and Contingency
Dietmar Mieth
Part II. Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences
6. Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood
Ludger Honnefelder
7. Human Cognitive Vulnerability and the Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus
Deryck Beyleveld
8. Needs and the Metaphysics of Rights
Bernard Baertschi
9. The Authority of Desire in Medicine
Matthias Kettner
10. Procreative Needs and Rights
Norbert Campagna
11. Needs, Capacities and Morality
Marcus Düwell
12. Moral Judgement and Moral Reasoning
Albert W. Musschenga
13. Philosophical Reflection on Bioethics and Limits
Theo Willigenburg
Part III. Cases of Limits
14. Finite Lives and Unlimited Medical Aspirations
Daniel Callahan
15. Reproductive Choice: Whose Rights? Whose Freedom?
Brenda Almond
16. Assisted Reproduction and the Changing of the Human Body
Maurizio Mori
17. On the Limits of Liberal Bioethics
Hille Haker
18. The Human Embryo as Clinical Tool
Sheila A.M. McLean
19. The Naked Emperor
Michiel Korthals
Part IV. Abilities and Disabilities
20. Disability: Suffering, Social Oppression, or Complex Predicament?
Tom Shakespeare
21. Disability and Moral Philosophy: Difference Should Count
Sigrid Graumann
22. Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability
Joel Anderson
Part V. Others’ Views: Intercultural Perspectives
23. Normative Relations: East Asian on Biomedicine and Bioethics
Gerhold K Becker
24. Limits of Human Existence According to China’s Bioethics
Ole Döring
25. There is the World, and there is the Map of the World
Laurie Zoloth
26. Reflections on Human Dignity and the Israeli Cloning Debate
Carmel Shalev
27. Conceiving of Human Life
Boris Yudin
28. Globalization and the Dynamic Role of Human Rights in Relation to a Common Perspective for Life Sciences
Carlos M. Romeo-Casabona
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- Author(s)
- Düwell, Marcus
- Mieth, Dietmar
- Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402067648