A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics

Johnson, Lawrence E

A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics Biocentric Ethics - New York Cambridge University 2011 - 379p

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I. BACKGROUNDS 2 Some Background: Self and Reason 3 Some Background: Approaches to Ethics 4 Some Background: Our Good 5 Elusive Lines, Slippery Slopes, and Moral Principles PART II. LIFE, DEATH, AND BIOETHICS 6 Being Alive 7 Being Healthy 8 Health and Virtue 9 Death and Life 10 Drawing Lines with Death 11 Double Effect: Euthanasia and Proportionality 12 Concerning Abortion 13 The Gene, Part I: The Mystique 14 The Gene, Part II: Manipulation 15 Ethics and Biomedical Research 16 Bioethics Seen in an Eastern Light 17 Toward a Wider View

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