Phenomenological Bioethics: Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive

by Fredrik Svenaeus

Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis, organ transplantation, and psychopharmacological drugs all raise existential questions that need to be tackled by way of philosophical analysis. Yet questions regarding the meaning of life have been strangely absent from medical ethics so far. This book brings phenomenology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138629960
• ISBN13: 9781138629967
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"