Reading Engelhardt [electronic resource] : essays on the thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. / edited with an introduction by Brendan P. Minogue, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, James E. Reagan.

This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference `Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Minogue, Brendan, 1945-, Palmer-Fernandez, Gabriel, 1953-, Reagan, James E., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer, ©1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt's Foundations of Bioethics
  • 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt's Peace
  • 3 Medicine's Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust
  • 4 Engelhardt's Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions
  • 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers
  • 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt's Principles of Bioethics
  • 7 Engelhardt's Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology
  • 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt's Phenomenology of Illness
  • 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children
  • 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards
  • 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt's Kantian Underpinnings
  • 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox
  • 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism
  • 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt's Secular Humanist Bioethics
  • 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content?
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