The structure of moral revolutions

The structure of moral revolutions: studies of changes in the morality of abortion, death, and the bioethics revolution

by Baker, Robert

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"We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these inversions are the product of moral revolutions that follow a pattern similar to that of the scientific revolutions analyzed by Thomas Kuhn in his …

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  • Full title :The structure of moral revolutions : studies of changes in the morality of abortion, death, and the bioethics revolution / Robert Baker.

Summary

"We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these inversions are the product of moral revolutions that follow a pattern similar to that of the scientific revolutions analyzed by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. After laying out the theoretical terrain, Baker develops his argument with examples of moral reversals from the recent and distant past. He describes the revolution, led by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, that transformed the postmortem dissection of human bodies from punitive desecration to civic virtue; the criminalization of abortion in the nineteenth century and its decriminalization in the twentieth century; and the invention of a new bioethics paradigm in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting a patient-led rebellion against medical paternalism. Finally, Baker reflects on moral relativism, arguing that the acceptance of “absolute” moral truths denies us the diversity of moral perspectives that permit us to alter our morality in response to changing environments." --

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):The MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 317 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780262043083, 0262043084
  • oclc:on1088642311
  • LC Classification:QH332
  • Dewey Decimal:174.2

Table of Contents

On scientific and moral revolutions -- Using the dead for the living: the benthamite moral revolution -- Immoralizing and criminalizing abortion: the doctors revolution -- Irredentism and counter-revolutions in geology and abortion -- The american bioethics revolution -- The structure of moral revolutions.

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Subjects

Attitude to Health Attitudes à l'égard de la santé Avortement -- Aspect social Bioethical Issues Bioethics Bioethics -- Social aspects Bioéthique Bioéthique -- Aspect social Conditions morales Ethical relativism Ethics, Medical Éthique médicale Éthique médicale -- Aspect social Health attitudes Medical ethics Medical ethics -- Social aspects Moral conditions Morals

Writers

Baker, Robert

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