Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus (Conflicts & Trends - Studies in Values & Policies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0976404133 ISBN 13: 9780976404132

Publisher: M&M Scrivener Press, 2007

Synopsis

"Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus" explores the persistent failure to produce a universal set of standards for bioethics. The predicament of contemporary morality, the post-modern condition, is such that we find ourselves in the position of numerous competing moralities that not only reach conflicting judgments about particular issues, but also reflect radically divergent world-views. Consensus, therefore, is impossible to achieve. These essays analyze and diagnose the causes and results of the diversity of moral world-views in both philosophy and everyday life. Some of the essays in this volume argue that the post-modern condition is actually the direct result of the philosophical-theological synthesis of the Western Christian Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore the difficulties, both procedural and contentful, that have arisen from the failure of various attempts to arrive at a global secular bioethics by means of rational-discursive reflection.

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About the Author

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., holds degrees in both medicine and philosophy. He is professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine. In addition to having authored over 300 articles and chapters of books, as well as having co-edited more than 30 volumes. He is the editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and two book series, Philosophy and Medicine, and Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. He is also the founding and senior editor of Christian Bioethics.

Edition details

• Publisher: M&M Scrivener Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976404133
• ISBN 13: 9780976404132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Engelhardt H. Tristram