Problems of bioethics
By: Lukas Ohly
Series: Theologisch-philosophische Beiträge zu Gegenwartsfragen -- Bd. 12; Theologisch-philosophische Beiträge zu Gegenwartsfragen -- Bd. 12.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9783631637777
Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Theologische Ethik; Bioethics; Biotechnology; Ethics; Medical Philosophy; Bioethik
Description: "This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The claim of bioethics; title: The moral state of the embryo; title: The power of feelings in bioethics; title: Human reproductive cloning and germ line therapy; title: Brain and mind; title: Could computers feel like human? (Qualia); title: Patients with serious brain damage; title: Do humans have a free will?; title: The problem of mercy killing; title: Eternal dignity; title: Ethical and theological kinds of guilt; title: The metaphysical concept of presumed will; title: At the end of the lectures.