To relieve the human condition : bioethics, technology, and the body
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To relieve the human condition : bioethics, technology, and the body
State University of New York Press, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and index
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Description
CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Technology, Tradition, and the Origins of Bioethics
2. Standard Bioethics and the Baconian Project
3. Utopia, Nihilism, and the Quest for Repsonsibility
4. Medicine and the Ethics of Vocation
5. Medicine as a Moral Art
6. Medicine and the Reconciling Community
7. Modernity, Medicine, and the Body
8. The Body after Utopia
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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