Insistent life: principles for bioethics in the Jain tradition
"Insistent Life is the first full-length interdisciplinary treatment of the foundational principles and principles of application for engaging contemporary bioethics within the Jain tradition. The book fills a significant gap in both the fields of bioethics and Jain studies since Jainism, perhaps more so than any other South Asian tradition, is strongly focused on the ethics of birth, life, and death, with regard to humans as well as other living beings. Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj analyz…
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- Full title :Insistent life : principles for bioethics in the Jain tradition / Brianne Graham Donaldson and Ana Bajželj.
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"Insistent Life is the first full-length interdisciplinary treatment of the foundational principles and principles of application for engaging contemporary bioethics within the Jain tradition. The book fills a significant gap in both the fields of bioethics and Jain studies since Jainism, perhaps more so than any other South Asian tradition, is strongly focused on the ethics of birth, life, and death, with regard to humans as well as other living beings. Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj analyze a diverse range of Jain texts and contemporary sources on Jain doctrines and practices, alongside bioethics, to identify Jain perspectives on bioethical issues while highlighting the complexity of their personal, professional, and public dimensions. The book also features extensive original data--represented in visual graphs--based on an international survey the authors conducted with Jain medical professionals in India and diaspora communities of North America,Europe, and Africa"--
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- Publication Date:2021
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- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Oakland, California
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
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- Description:1 ressource en ligne
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0520380576, 9780520380578
- oclc:on1341346485
- LC Classification:R725.55
- Dewey Decimal:174.2088/2944
Table of Contents
Why Jainism and bioethics? -- Life, non-life, and karma -- Nonviolence and the framework of Jain ethics -- Jainism's evolving view ofmedicine -- Potentials of (re)birth -- Wages of life -- Calculations of death.
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