Henk Ten Have

Vulnerability

Challenging Bioethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains and elaborates the new concept of vulnerability in today¿s bioethics. It argues that vulnerability cannot be fully understood within the framework of individual autonomy that dominates mainstream bioethics today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781138652675
• ISBN-10: 1138652679
• Artikelnr.: 44146120

Autorenporträt

Henk ten Have is Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. He studied medicine and philosophy in the Netherlands, and worked as a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Universities of Maastricht and Nijmegen. From 2003 until 2010 he joined UNESCO in Paris as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. His recent publications include the Handbook of Global Bioethics (2014) and Global Bioethics: An Introduction (2016). He is currently working on the Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Idea of Vulnerability 2. Growing Interest in Vulnerability 3.
Vulnerability in the Context of Health Care and Bioethics 4. The Bioethical
Discourse of Vulnerability 5. We Are All Vulnerable - Philosophical
Perspectives on Vulnerability 6. Some of Us Are More Vulnerable - Political
Perspectives on Vulnerability 7. Vulnerability Is Everywhere -
Globalization and Vulnerability 8. Theoretical Implications of
Vulnerability 9. Practical Applications of Vulnerability