Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction: Protecting Future Generations: 9 (Religion and Human Rights, 9) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030869407 ISBN 13: 9783030869403

Publisher: Springer, 2023

Synopsis

This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics.  It includes contributions of bioethics experts from six major religions—Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism—as well as secular authors.  The chapters  include commentaries discussing the content cross-religious/secular tradition to give a comparative perspective.  Not only the volume editors but also the contributing authors took part in reviewing each others’ chapter making this a unique collected volume, not common in interreligious dialogue today. This text appeals to researchers and students working in the fields of bioethics and religious/secular studies.

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About the Author

Joseph Tham is Professor at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, Rome.

Alberto García Gómez is Professor of Philosophy of Law and International Law at the School of Bioethics of Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum, Rome

John Lunstroth is a Fellow at UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights

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This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics.  It includes contributions of bioethics experts from six major religions―Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism―as well as secular authors.  The chapters  include commentaries discussing the content cross-religious/secular tradition to give a comparative perspective.  Not only the volume editors but also the contributing authors took part in reviewing each others’ chapter making this a unique collected volume, not common in interreligious dialogue today. This text appeals to researchers and students working in the fields of bioethics and religious/secular studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030869407
• ISBN 13: 9783030869403
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Tham Joseph, Garcia Gómez Alberto, Lunstroth John