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Problems of Bioethics

by Lukas Ohly (Author)
©2012 Monographs 154 Pages

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
154
Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783653025187
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631637777
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02518-7
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (November)
Keywords
Genetics Eternal Dignity Cloning State of the Embryo Germ Line Therapy Human Dignity
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 154 pp.

Biographical notes

Lukas Ohly (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.

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