Naturalized bioethics
Subtitle: toward responsible knowing and practice
By: edited by Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk, Margaret Urban Walker.
Contributors: Lindemann, Hilde.; Verkerk, Marian.; Walker, Margaret Urban, 1948-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521895248; 9780521719407
Subjects: Medical ethics; Naturalism ; Ethics, Evolutionary; Bioethics; Ethical Theory
Description: Naturalized Bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practiced. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Groningen naturalism in bioethics / Margaret Urban Walker; title: Moral bodies: epistemologies of embodiment / Jackie Leach Scully; title: Choosing surgical birth: desire and the nature of bioethical advice / Raymond DeVries, Lisa Kane Low, Elizabeth (Libby) Bogdan-Lovis; title: Holding on to Edmund: the relational work of identity / Hilde Lindemann; title: Caring, minimal autonomy, and the limits of liberalism / Agnieszka Jaworska; title: Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value / Naomi Scheman; title: Toward a naturalized narrative bioethics / Tod Chambers; title: Motivating health: empathy & the normative activity of coping / Jodi Halpern and Margaret Olivia Little; title: Economies of hope in a period of transition: parents in the time leading up to their child's liver transplantation / Mare Knibbe and Marian Verkerk; title: Consent as a grant of authority: a care ethics reading of informed consent / Joan Tronto; title: Professional loving care and the bearable heaviness of being / Annelies van Heijst; title: Ideal theory bioethics and the exclusion of people with severe cognitive disabilities / Eva Feder Kittay; title: Epilogue: naturalized bioethics in practice / Marian Verkerk and Hilde Lindemann.