Kierkegaard and Bioethics
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2023
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-032-20777-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-20777-3 (9781032207773)
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Johann-Christian Poder is a Junior Professor of Ethics at the University of Rostock, Germany. He is the co-editor, with John-Stewart Gordon and Holger Burckhart, of Human Rights and Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2017).
Content
Introduction: Kierkegaard and Bioethics Johann-Christian Poder Part 1: Existential Framing of Bioethics 1. Bioethics in the Spirit of Kierkegaard Vilhjalmur Arnason 2. Anxiety, Hope, and the Life Sciences: Towards an Anthropological Foundation of Bioethics Marcus Duewell Part 2: Concepts of Health, Disease, and Disability 3. Kierkegaard's Conception of Health and Sickness and the Idea of Diagnostic Anthropology Jakub Marek 4. Being a 'Justified Exception': Kierkegaard on Mental and Bodily Dispositions Jonas Hodel Part 3: Today's Medical Developments: Prediction and Enhancement 5. Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Predictive Medicine Henning Noerenberg and Johann-Christian Poder 6. Humankind and Biotechnology. Habermas, Kierkegaard, and a Religious Perspective on Enhancement Hermann Diebel-Fischer Part 4: Psychiatry and Trauma Studies 7. Kierkegaard's Ethics of Suffering and the Biomedical Challenge of Autonomy Rene Rosfort 8. Becoming through Rupture: Kierkegaardian Reflection on Contemporary Trauma Discourse Anna Westin Part 5: Current Debates in Bioethics: COVID-19, Gender Identity 9. Existential Ethics and Public Policy: On the Value of Life, Just Cause, and Moral Demand Melissa Fox-Muraton 10. Kierkegaard, Gender Identity, and Bioethics: How to Receive the Other Oliver Norman