Kierkegaard and Bioethics 1st Edition by Johann Christian Põder 9781000878233 1000878236

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• ISBN 10: 1000878236
• ISBN 13: 9781000878233
• Author: Johann Christian Põder

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.

Table contents:

Part 1 Existential Framing of Bioethics
1 Bioethics in the Spirit of Kierkegaard
2 Anxiety, Hope, and the Life Sciences: Towards an Anthropological Foundation of Bioethics
Part 2 Concepts of Health, Disease, and Disability
3 Kierkegaard’s Conception of Health and Sickness and the Idea of Diagnostic Anthropology
4 Being a ‘Justified Exception’: Kierkegaard on Mental and Bodily Dispositions
Part 3 Today’s Medical Developments: Prediction and Enhancement
5 Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Predictive Medicine
6 Humankind and Biotechnology. Habermas, Kierkegaard, and a Religious Perspective on Enhancement
Part 4 Psychiatry and Trauma Studies
7 Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Suffering and the Biomedical Challenge of Autonomy
8 Becoming through Rupture: Kierkegaardian Reflection on Contemporary Trauma Discourse
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
10 Kierkegaard, Gender Identity, and Bioethics: How to Receive the Other

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