To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body - Hardcover

McKenny, Gerald P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791434737 ISBN 13: 9780791434734

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

Argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopianism of medicine. Puts forth an alternative agenda arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books

This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

About this title

About the Author

Gerald P. McKenny is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and coeditor (with Edith Wyschogrod) of The Ethical.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791434737
• ISBN 13: 9780791434734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279