Religious Perspectives on Bioethics (Routledge Annals of Bioethics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9026519672 ISBN 13: 9789026519673

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2005

Synopsis

Religious Perspectives in Bioethics illustrates the diverse and wide-ranging moral intuitions, premises, evaluations, and commitments of many of the world's religions. As such, it explores, documents and critically assesses the moral and cultural assumptions, central beliefs and values, and epistemological and metaphysical understandings that underlie the bioethics of a wide range of religions, from Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, and Sikhism, to Islam and Judaism, to the various Christian religions, including Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, Southern Baptist, and Reformed Protestant. Religious Perspectives in Bioethics portrays the often widely divergent bioethical perspectives reflected throughout the international community's religions and cultures. Here one appreciates the significant plurality of fundamentally different, incompatible, and often mutually antagonistic moral visions and moral rationalities, within which complex bioethical issues are addressed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9026519672
• ISBN 13: 9789026519673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Peppin John F