Foundat Bioethics 2e C

By H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195057368
• ISBN13: 9780195057362
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The Foundations of Bioethics

Rarely, does anyone get down to the elemental processes of human interactions. This book is one of those rare occasions. It basically negates all known ethical methods and demands respect for human rights (albeit in a un- or under-stated way). Post-Modern Ethics has no where to go except to the process of mutual respect of individuals.This is a difficult book to read because it cuts through all internal and external methods thus attacking one's own value system. A section on axiology would have been a plus (but not necessary.)It's must read for the new mellenium.