Bioethics in complexity :: foundations and evolutions /

This publication reviews the foundations of ethics in the history ofWestern thinking. It connects these philosophical matters withevolutionary theory and contemporary bioethics, biology and medicine, posing new questions for the current dialectics between categoricaland contextual ethics. Novel answ...

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Other Authors: De Risio, Sergio, 1945-, Orsucci, Franco
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2004.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This publication reviews the foundations of ethics in the history ofWestern thinking. It connects these philosophical matters withevolutionary theory and contemporary bioethics, biology and medicine, posing new questions for the current dialectics between categoricaland contextual ethics. Novel answers are presented from complexitytheory self-organization and nonlinear dynamics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 90 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-86) and index.
ISBN:1860944000
9781860944000
9781860943997
1860943993
1281866571
9781281866578
9781860945946
1860945945

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