Screen LibraryBioethics critically reconsidered：having second thoughts
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy and medicine ; v.100 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2244-6 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 200 p.): |
| ISBN: |
9789400722446 (electronic bk.) 9400722443 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | R |
| CLC: | R-052 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. A skeptical reassessment of bioethics -- Beginning bioethics -- Genesis of a totalizing ideology: bioethics' inner hippie -- Bioethics and professional medical ethics: mapping and managing an uneasy relationship -- Two rival understandings of autonomy, paternalism, and bioethical principlism -- Bioethics as political ideology -- The "s" in bioethics: past, present and future -- Why clinical bioethics so rarely gives morally normative guidance -- On the social construction of health care ethics consultation. Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics. In the context of this moral vacuum, bioethics came into existence. Its raison d'etre was opposition to the alleged paternalism of the medical community and traditional moral frameworks, yet at the same time it set itself up as a source of moral authority with respect to biomedical decision making. |