Bioethics in Cultural Contexts: Reflections on Methods and Finitude

by Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Book Overview

CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER, MARCUS D WELL, DIETMAR MIETH When we placed "finitude", "limits of human existence" as a motto over a round of discussion on biomedicine and bioethics (which led to this collection of essays) we did not know how far this would lead us into methodological quandaries. However, we felt intuitively that an interdisciplinary approach including social and cultural sciences would have an advantage over a solely disciplinary (philosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140204240X
• ISBN13: 9781402042409
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"