The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics (Biomedical Law and Ethics Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113870198X ISBN 13: 9781138701984

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics as it is being supported and practiced by various disciplines such as philosophy, law, medicine, and the social sciences, applied to a wide range of areas. The European focus offers a valuable counter-balance to an often prominent US understanding of bioethics.

The volume is split into four parts. The first contains reflection on bioethics in the past, present and future, and also considers how comparison between countries and disciplines can enrich bioethical discourse. The second looks at bioethics in particular locations and contexts, including: policy, boardrooms and courtrooms; studios and virtual rooms; and society, while the third part explores the translation of theories and concepts of bioethics into the clinical setting. The fourth and final section focuses on academic expressions of bioethics, as it is theorised in various disciplines and also as it is taught, whether in classrooms or at the patient’s bedside. The book features unique contributions from a range of experts including: Alastair V Campbell; Ruth Chadwick; Angus Dawson; Raymond G. De Vries; Suzanne Ost; Renzo Pegoraro; Rouven Porz; Paul Schotsmans; Jochen Vollmann; Guy Widdershoven and Hub Zwart.

Chapter 10 of this book ''You Don't Need Proof When You've Got Instinct!': Gut Feelings and Some Limits to Parental Authority' by Giles Birchley is available under an open access CC BY NC ND license and can be viewed at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/userimages/ContentEditor/1438250845242/9780415737197_chapter10.pdf .

 

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Huxtable is Professor of Medical Ethics and Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol.

Ruud ter Meulen is Professor of Ethics in Medicine and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 113870198X
• ISBN 13: 9781138701984
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Huxtable Richard