"Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own v…
"Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own v…
Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioeth…
Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioeth…
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics is a striking collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring key debates in, and the relationship between, bioethics and biopolitics.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It is only by doing so that we …
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics is a striking collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring key debates in, and the relationship between, bioethics and biopolitics
Moral brains: the neuroscience of morality
Introduction: Encounters between bioethics and the posthumanities / Danielle Sands -- Therapy, enhancement, and the social model of disability / Michael Wee -- Rethinking the posthuman in bioethics / David Boden and Sarah Chan -- Gen-ethics, policy and the posthumanities / Ruth …
Bioethics and the posthumanities
Introduction: Encounters between bioethics and the posthumanities / Danielle Sands -- Therapy, enhancement, and the social model of disability / Michael Wee -- Rethinking the posthuman in bioethics / David Boden and Sarah Chan -- Gen-ethics, policy and the posthumanities / Ruth …
Bioethics and the posthumanities
"This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and explores the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in th…