To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body - Softcover

McKenny, Gerald P.

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9780791434741: To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body
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ISBN 10: 0791434745 ISBN 13: 9780791434741
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

Argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopianism of medicine. Puts forth an alternative agenda arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

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This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

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About the Author

Gerald P. McKenny is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and coeditor (with Edith Wyschogrod) of The Ethical.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791434745
ISBN 13 
9780791434741
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
279
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