PDF-(BOOS)-Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics

Human dignity has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity And yet human dignity is a termlike love hope and justicethat is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies In this book Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed nonideological and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights relating these ideas to current issues in ethics law and bioethics Combining social history history of ideas moral theology applied ethics and political theory Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights After setting the problem in its scholarly context he offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural humanist perspective explores issues of moral status and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights Barilan accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as endoflife care cloning abortion torture treatment of the mentally incapacitated the right to health care the human organ market disability and notions of difference and privacy highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian law. Sue L. T. McGregor PhD Professor. Mount Saint Vincent . University, Halifax NS Canada. 2010 . International Cultural Research Network Conference . Halifax NS. Finding a moral ground for a globalized world. A Philo-politico-educational perspective. by David . Balosa. David . Balosa. :. Adjunct Professor of French, Portuguese, . Spanish, & Swahili at Delaware State . University. Department of English and Foreign Languages. Rights . Debate in Islamic World. Ebrahim Azadegan. Sharif University of . Technolog. y. 13 OCT 2016. Utrecht. Introduction. Main Problem: while . we can find some valuable textual support for even the modern conception of human dignity in Islam but different established views toward the . Programme Director in . Bioethics and Medical Law. St. Mary’s University College . What is ‘Ethics’?. Ethics is ‘the study and justification of conduct’. (Fraenkel 1977) . Morality is . the . Six religious perspectives. Fr. Joseph Tham, LC, MD, PhD. Faculty. of Bioethics, Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum. Fellow. , UNESCO . Chair. in Bioethics and Human . Rights. Rome, . Italy. 4th International workshop. D. r Patrick Riordan SJ. 4 AREAS OF DEBATE. Law. Philosophy (Ethics, Theology). Advocacy. Politics. LAW. International: European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950),. l.nepi@lumsa.it. Rules . to discipline human . behavior . at a social level, in the context . of progress . in scientific knowledge and technological applications in . biology and . medicine. . Bioethics . Dr. Farhat Moazam has written a wonderful book, based on her extraordinary first-hand study.... [S]he is an exceptionally gifted and evocative writer. Her book not only has the attributes of a superb piece of intellectual work, but it has literary artistic merit. --Renee C. Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of PennsylvaniaThis is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam\'s participant-observer research conducted at a public hospital. Her narrative is both a thick description of renal transplant cases and the cultural, ethical, and family conflicts that accompany them, and an object lesson in comparative bioethics. Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts. Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In August 2001, in conjunction with his decision to permit limited federal funding for stem-cell research, President George W. Bush created the President\'s Council on Bioethics to address the ethical ramifications of biomedical innovation. Over the past year the Council, whose members comprise an all-star team of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, humanists, and theologians, has discussed and debated the pros and cons of cloning, whether to produce children or to aid in scientific research. This book is its insightful and thought-provoking report. The questions the Council members confronted do not have easy answers, and they did not seek to hide their differences behind an artificial consensus. Rather, the Council decided to allow each side to make its own best case, so that the American people can think about and debate these questions, which go to the heart of what it means to be a human being. Just as the dawn of the atomic age created ethical dilemmas for the United States, cloning presents us with similar quandaries that we are sure to wrestle with for decades to come. Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems in bioethics. For pragmatism, ethics is a way of satisfying the complex demands of multiple individuals and groups in a contingent and changing world. Pragmatism also demands careful attention to the ways in which scientific advances change our values and ethics. The essays in this book present different approaches to pragmatism and different ways of applying pragmatism to scientific and medical matters. They use pragmatism to guide thinking about such timely topics as stem cell research, human cloning, genetic testing, human enhancement, and care for the poor and aging. This new edition contains three new chapters, on difficulties with applying pragmatism to law and bioethics, on helping people to die, and on embryonic stem cell research. NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies lastContains a collection of essays exploring human dignity and bioethics, a concept crucial to today\'s discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular. This publication gives some examples of how human dignity can be a difficult concept to apply in bioethical controversies, explores some of the complex roots of the modern notion of human dignity, in order to shed light on why its application to bioethics is so problematic, and suggests, tentatively, that a certain conception of human dignity—dignity understood as humanity— has an important role to play in bioethics, both now and especially in the future. Related products:Ethics and Code of Conduct resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/law...   The questions of whether there is a shared nature common to all human beings and, if so, what essential qualities define this nature are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain the subject of perennial interest and controversy. This book offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence-that is, with what is a human being identical or what types of parts are necessary for a human being to exist: an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? It also considers the criterion of identity for a human being across time and change-that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Jason Eberl\'s investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas\'s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. There are practical implications of exploring these theories as they inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence-at conception, during gestation, or after birth-and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. This book\'s central argument is that the Thomistic account of human nature includes several desirable features that other theories lack and offers a cohesive portrait of one\'s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond. Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems in bioethics. For pragmatism, ethics is a way of satisfying the complex demands of multiple individuals and groups in a contingent and changing world. Pragmatism also demands careful attention to the ways in which scientific advances change our values and ethics. The essays in this book present different approaches to pragmatism and different ways of applying pragmatism to scientific and medical matters. They use pragmatism to guide thinking about such timely topics as stem cell research, human cloning, genetic testing, human enhancement, and care for the poor and aging. This new edition contains three new chapters, on difficulties with applying pragmatism to law and bioethics, on helping people to die, and on embryonic stem cell research.