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From Physicians’ Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics A German Perspective on Historical Experiences and Lasting Commitments
This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine. It records...
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Scientific ethos and ethical dimensions of education
This research examines the ethical dimensions of ethical thought aimed at reflecting fundamentals or leading principles of the production and...
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Foundations of Bioethical Decision-Making in Bioethics and Biolaw
This chapter discusses the theoretical foundations of bioethical decision-making and provides the basis for bioethical judgment in bioethics and...
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Bioethics and Its Relation to Medical Research in Japan: Historical Influences and Contemporary Pressures
A central question of this chapter is how we can relate the unique ethos of Japan to the ways that influences of international bioethics, civil...
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Development and validation of an instrument to measure physician awareness of bioethics and medical law in Oman
BackgroundA different ethos with respect to the perception of medical ethics prevails in societies in transition such as those in the Arabian...
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Bioethics After Covid
This chapter will analyze the implications of Covid-19 experiences for bioethical discourse. Mainstream bioethics operates with the ethical...
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Godwin’s Law and the Limits of Bioethics and Holocaust Studies
This chapter examines the ways in which Godwin’s LawGodwin’s Law disallows good bioethical discussion on controversial topics in healthcare because...
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Models of Medical Clinical Practice: A Comparative Discussion of Secular and Religious Bioethics
This chapter discusses models of clinical practice through a comparative discussion of secular and religious bioethics and the various ways in...
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Ethos and Eidos as Field Level Concepts for the Sociology of Morality and the Anthropology of Ethics: Towards a Social Theory of Applied Ethics
This article presents the notions of ethos and eidos as field level concepts for the sociology of morality and the anthropology of ethics. This is...
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A German Path Toward Bioethics
„Gnothi seauton “(Know thyself) was the inscription over the door with which the anatomy building greeted those who – with much luck – had been...
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Bioethics and the Defence of a Culture of Liberalism: Philosophical Rationality in the Spirit of Modesty
I have been invited to give a summary account of my contribution to the development of medical ethics in Germany, which would transcend medicine’s...
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Bioethics and the Holocaust in a Multicultural Context
This chapter explores the importance of diversitydiversity and interfaithinterfaith initiatives in human rightshuman rights and bioethicsbioethics...
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Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Bioethics in Nazi and Contemporary Cinema
Today, physician-assisted suicidePhysician-assisted suicide and/or euthanasiaEuthanasia are legal in several European countries, Canada, several...
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The Impact of Clinical Ethics Consultations on Physicians in a Latin American Context
Clinical bioethics plays a significant role in hospital settings through bioethics consultations, which focus on providing ongoing assistance in...
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A Social Commons Ethos in Public Policy-Making
In the business ethics literature, a commons paradigm orients theorizing toward how civil society can promote collaboration and collectively govern...
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Introduction
The Philosophy and Medicine series, to which this book contributes, is dedicated to the project of gaining clarity about how the traditional...
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Human Genetics Between the Physician’s Ethos and Bio-politics: From Eugenics to Human Gene Technology
As a special discipline, human genetics developed only in the twentieth century (Freye, 1988, pp. 13 ff; 1990). More than 90% of modern genetics are...
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The Natural Law Tradition, Public Reason, and Bioethics
The chapter argues that the natural law tradition’s conception of public reason is more consistent than that of political liberalism, especially when...