Problems of Bioethics

Lukas Ohly

ISBN 10: 3631637772 / ISBN 13: 9783631637777

Published by Peter Lang AG, CH, 2012

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This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problems of Bioethics
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, CH
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631637772
• ISBN 13: 9783631637777
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 320 grams

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Synopsis

This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics.

About the Author

Lukas Ohly, born in 1969; studying evangelical theology and philosophy; 1998 MA phil.; 2000 dissertation thesis in ev. theology about human dignity and euthanasia; 2007 second thesis about genetic enhancement and anthropology; lecturer of Frankfurt university since 2007; author of a book about a theory of perceiving God (2011), many articles about ethics and philosophy of religion.