The triple helix
Subtitle: the soul of bioethics
By: Lisa Bellantoni
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230300996
Subjects: RELIGION / Ethics; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Political; Bioethics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
Description: Lisa Bellantoni argues that contemporary bioethics divides into two logically incommensurable positions: a cult of rights, which identifies the worth of human life with our autonomy, and a cult of life, which identifies human worth with the possession of a soul, and thereby, of human dignity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.