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Kierkegaard and Bioethics
Johann-Christian Põder, Johann-Christian Põder
- 216 pages
- English
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Kierkegaard and Bioethics
Johann-Christian Põder, Johann-Christian Põder
About This Book
This book explores Kierkegaard's significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard's existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates.
A bioethics inspired by Kierkegaard is not focused primarily on ethical codes, principles, or cases, but on the existential 'how' of our medical situation. Such a perspective focuses on the formative ethical experiences that an individual can have in relation to oneself and others when dealing with medical decisions, interventions, and information. The chapters in this volume explore questions like: What happens when medicine and bioethics meet Kierkegaard? How might Kierkegaard's writings and thoughts contribute to contemporary issues in medicine? Do we need an existential turn in bioethics? They offer theoretical reflections on how Kierkegaard's existential thinking might contribute to bioethics and apply Kierkegaardian concepts to debates on health and disease, predictive medicine and enhancement, mental illness and trauma, COVID-19, and gender identity.
Kierkegaard and Bioethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Kierkegaard, bioethics, moral philosophy, existential ethics, religious ethics, and the medical humanities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations for Kierkegaard’s Works
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Kierkegaard and Bioethics
- Part 1 Existential Framing of Bioethics
- Part 2 Concepts of Health, Disease, and Disability
- Part 3 Today’s Medical Developments: Prediction and Enhancement
- Part 4 Psychiatry and Trauma Studies
- Part 5 Current Debates in Bioethics: COVID-19, Gender Identity
- Index