Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics / / ed. by Joseph Boyle, Leonard Sumner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Beauchamp, Tom L.,; Boyle, Joseph,; Brock, Dan W.,; Callahan, Daniel,; Daniels, Norman,; Hare, R.M.,; Jonsen, Albert R.,; Kymlicka, Will,; Morgan, Kathryn Pauly,; Overall, Christine,; Purdy, Laura M.,; Shanner, Laura,; Sherwin, Susan,; Sumner, L.W.,; Winkler, Earl,
• HerausgeberIn: Boyle, Joseph,; Sumner, Leonard,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Professional Morality: Can an Examined Life Be Lived?
• Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals
• Morally Appreciated Circumstances: A Theoretical Problem for Casuistry
• Moral Philosophy and Bioethics: Contextualism versus the Paradigm Theory
• The Role of Principles in Practical Ethics
• Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Practice
• Bioethics through the Back Door: Phenomenology, Narratives, and Insights into Infertility
• Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist Bioethics
• Reflections of a Sceptical Bioethicist
• Theory versus Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice in Health Care
• Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility
• Moral Philosophy and Public Policy: The Case of New Reproductive Technologies
• Public Moral Discourse
• Contributors