Covenantal Biomedical Ethics for Contemporary Medicine
An Alternative to Principles-Based Ethics
Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades. Attractive in its conceptual and linguistic simplicity, it has also been criticized for its lack of moral content and justification and its lack of attention to relationships. This book identifies the modernist and postmodernist worldviews and philosophical roots of principlism that ground the moral minimalism of its common morality premise. Building on previous work by prominent Christian bioethicists, an alternative covenantal ethical framework is presented in our contemporary context. Relationships cons…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63087-300-4
- EAN: 9781630873004
- Produktnummer: 30238545
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 330 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'183 KB
Über den Autor
James J. Rusthoven, MD, MHSc, PhD is Professor of Oncology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is a medical oncologist with a part-time clinical practice, consulting on patients with breast cancer and lung cancer. He enjoys teaching medicine and bioethics and speaking to a variety of audiences on topics related to biomedical ethics. Dr. Rusthoven is committed to understanding medicine, its practice, and the world around us in light of the word of God.
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