Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics

Joseph Tham

ISBN 10: 9401787352 / ISBN 13: 9789401787352

Edité par Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jul 2014, 2014

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Neuware -With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number of the world¿s population is affiliated with some religious traditions. While there is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions¿Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism¿who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics
• Éditeur: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jul 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9401787352
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789401787352
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 582 grammes

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With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number of the world's population is affiliated with some religious traditions. While there is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions--Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism--who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.