Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bioethics and the Human GoodsCondition: NewSubtitle: An Introduction to Natural Law BioethicsAuthor: Alfonso Gomez-LoboContributor: John Keown (With)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 1626161631EAN: 9781626161634ISBN: 9781626161634Publisher: Georgetown University PressGenre: MedicineTopic: Science Nature & Math, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Date: 10/15/2015Description: Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "natural law" philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance. While compatible with much in the ethical thought of the great religions, it is grounded in reason, not religion. In contrast to the currently dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism, the natural law approach offers an understanding of human flourishing grounded in basic human goods, including life, health, friendship, and knowledge, and in the wrongness of intentionally turning against, or neglecting, these goods. The book is divided into two sections: Foundations and Issues. Foundations sketches a natural law understanding of the important ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice and explores different understandings of "personhood" and whether human embryos are persons.Issues applies a natural law perspective to some of the most controversial debates in contemporary bioethics at the beginning and end of life: research on human embryos, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the withdrawal of tube-feeding from patients in a "persistent vegetative state," and the definition of death. The text is completed by appendices featuring personal statements by Alfonso Gomez-Lobo on the status of the human embryo and on the definition and determination of death.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 181gRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Bioethics and the Human Goods
Title: Bioethics and the Human Goods
Subtitle: An Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics
Contributor: John Keown (With)
ISBN-10: 1626161631
EAN: 9781626161634
ISBN: 9781626161634
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 10/15/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Bioethics and the Human Goods : an Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Subject: Ethics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Natural Law
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Author: Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Law, Philosophy, Medical
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
