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Political philosophy for the global age
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ISBN: 1403964750 1349528285 9786611368401 1403979006 1281368407 1403980241 Year: 2005

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In the spirit of communitarianism and dialogue between civilizations, this ambitious book seeks a political philosophy where a diversity of world-views can meet. The main objective of the book is to propose a theoretical basis for convergence and to explain how it can be built. After considering key positions in the current debate on political theory, the author offers a theoretical solution to the seeming impossibility of universalizing an ethics of caring and responsibility.

Justice beyond borders : a global political theory.
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ISBN: 019829350X 0199297967 9780199297962 9780198293507 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Examines which political principles should govern global politics. It explores ethical issues in justice that arise at the global level and addresses questions such as: are there universal values, and if so, what are they; what human rights, if any, are there; are there global principles of distributive justice; should there be a system of supra-state institutions; is national self-determination defensible; when, if ever, may political regimes wage war; and is humanitarian intervention justified?

Bioethics beyond the headlines : who lives? who dies? who decides?
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ISBN: 0742545245 0742545237 0742571637 9780742571631 129978206X 9781299782068 9780742545236 9780742545243 Year: 2005 Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

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Bioethics Beyond the Headlines is a primer in bioethics. You will not find convoluted philosophical arguments in this volume. Rather, you will find an engaging sampling of the key questions in bioethics, including euthanasia, assisted reproduction, cloning and stem cells, neuroscience, access to healthcare, and even research on animals and questions of environmental ethics-areas typically overlooked in general introductions to bioethics.

An introduction to contemporary metaethics.
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ISBN: 074562345X 0745623441 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge Polity press

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* A highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth century and contemporary metaethics. * Asks: Are there moral facts? Is there such a thing as moral truth? Is moral knowledge possible? * Traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent debates between naturalism and non--naturalism, cognitivism and noncognitivism. * Provides for the first time a critical survey of famous figures in twentieth century metaethics such as Moore, Ayer and Mackie together with in--depth discussions of contemporary philosophers such as Blackburn, Gibbard, Wright, Harman, Railton, Sturgeon, McDowell and Wiggins. This introduction provides a highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth--century and contemporary metaethics. It traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non--naturalism, cognitivism and non--cognitivism.

Ethics of the body : postconventional challenges
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ISBN: 1282097695 9786612097690 0262283522 1423748107 9780262283526 9781423748106 9780262693202 0262693208 9780262195232 0262195232 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press,

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The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theory as it problematizes the certainties of binary thinking; and with a postmodern culture in which bioscientific developments force us to question what is meant by the notion of the human self. The authors demonstrate that the conventional normative framework of bioethics is called into question by issues as wide ranging as genetic manipulation, disability, high-tech prosthetics, and intersexuality. The essays show how both the theory and practice of bioethics can benefit from postmodernism's characteristic fluidity and multiplicity, as well as from the insights of a reconceived feminist bioethics. They address issues in philosophy, law, bioscientific research, psychiatry, cultural studies, and feminism from a "postconventional" perspective that looks beyond the familiar ideas of the body, proposing not a bioethics about the body but a radical ethics of the body. After exploring notions of difference in both feminist and postmodernist terms, the book considers specific issues -- including HIV, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and cancer -- that challenge the principles of conventional bioethics. The focus then turns to questions raised by biotechnology: one essay rethinks the traditional feminist ethics of care in the context of new reproductive technology, while others tackle genetic and genomic issues. Finally, the book looks at embodiment and some specifically anomalous forms of being-in-the-body, including a consideration of intersex infants and children that draws on feminist, postructuralist, and queer theory.

Clinical bioethics : a search for the foundations
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ISBN: 1280412771 9786610412778 1402035934 1402035926 9048169054 Year: 2005 Volume: v. 26 Publisher: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer,

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A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality") Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

Bioethics and social reality
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ISBN: 9401201358 1423791886 9781423791881 9789401201353 9042016558 9789042016552 Year: 2005 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. In these original contributions fifteen notable scholars working in the North West of England take on this challenge. The series Values in Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.


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Les alimentations artificielles en fin de vie
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ISBN: 2873864303 9782873864309 Year: 2005 Publisher: Bruxelles : Editions Racine,

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C'est la confrontation quotidienne à des situations cliniques difficiles impliquant des problèmes d'alimentation ou de nutrition chez des patients en fin de vie qui a mené deux femmes médecins à rédiger ce livre. Véronique Latteur est gériatre en hôpital aigu, tandis que Marie Frings, spécialisée en soins palliatifs, a travaillé aussi bien en hôpital aigu qu'en établissement de long séjour ainsi qu'à domicile. Elles se sont interpellées à partir de leurs lieux différents de fin de vie. Dans un contexte de soins de plus en plus complexes et de plus en plus techniques, destinés à des personnes toujours plus fragilisées par leur âge et leurs problèmes de santé, une réflexion globale sur les alimentations artificielles devenait urgente. Repérant la diversité des situations cliniques, rassemblant les connaissances acquises aujourd'hui sur l'efficacité des alimentations par sonde selon ces différents contextes cliniques, les auteurs analysent aussi les ombreuses questions éthiques et juridiques que soulèvent les alimentations artificielles. Comment prendre une bonne décision thérapeutique chez une personne qui ne s'alimente plus? Comment éventuellement ne pas commencer un traitement d'alimentation artificielle? Comment donner de bons soins sans sonde de gavage tout en n' abandonnant pas le patient? Il est grand temps d'alimenter par une réflexion en profondeur le débat sur la "fin de vie digne", si médiatisé dans notre société occidentale. Egalement formatrices, Véronique Latteur et Marie Frings terminent leur recherche en proposant une démarche d'éthique pratique qui devrait permettre d'arriver à des décisions plus sensées et des pratiques plus pertinentes.

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