In this concise and accessible introductory text, Gómez-Lobo and Keown introduce a "human goods" approach to bioethics as an alternative to the dominant principle-based method in the field (best illustrated by Beauchamp and Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, OUP). Following Aristo...

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Main Authors:	Gómez-Lobo, Alfonso 1940-2011 (Author), Keown, John (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC Georgetown University Press [2015]
Edition:	First printing
Subjects:	Bioethics Natural law Bioethik Einführung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	In this concise and accessible introductory text, Gómez-Lobo and Keown introduce a "human goods" approach to bioethics as an alternative to the dominant principle-based method in the field (best illustrated by Beauchamp and Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, OUP). Following Aristotle and the natural law tradition, the authors demonstrate how an emphasis on human goods...such as health, life, family, friendship, work and play, the experience of beauty, knowledge, and integrity...provides a necessary context for medical decisions and can help us understand critical issues at the beginning and end of life. The manuscript includes two parts: Foundations and Issues. In the Foundations section the authors explain how one can think about bioethics, offering definitions of ethics and ontology (the study of being) and prudential reasoning. In the Issues section they address genetics, abortion, infanticide, suicide and physician-assisted suicide, nutrition and hydration, and transplantation ethics. The book includes appendices featuring personal statements by Gómez-Lobo on the status of the human embryo and criteria for the determination of death
Physical Description:	xxiv, 124 Seiten
ISBN:	9781626161634 9781626162716 9781626161641