The Contingent Nature of Life : Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence - Düwell, Marcus; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph; Mieth, Dietmar; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Contingency of Life and the Ethical -- The Value of Natural Contingency -- Between Natural Necessity and Ethical Contingency -- Of Poststructuralist Ethics and Nomadic Subjects -- Genetics, a Practical Anthropology -- Science, Religion, and Contingency -- Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences -- Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood -- Human Cognitive Vulnerability and the Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus -- Needs and the Metaphysics of Rights -- The Authority of Desire in Medicine -- Procreative Needs and Rights -- Needs, Capacities and Morality -- Moral Judgement and Moral Reasoning -- Philosophical Reflection on Bioethics and Limits -- Cases of Limits -- Finite Lives and Unlimited Medical Aspirations -- Reproductive Choice: Whose Rights? Whose Freedom? -- Assisted Reproduction and the Changing of the Human Body -- On the Limits of Liberal Bioethics -- The Human Embryo as Clinical Tool -- The Naked Emperor -- Abilities and Disabilities -- Disability: Suffering, Social Oppression, or Complex Predicament? -- Disability and Moral Philosophy: Difference Should Count -- Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability -- Others' Views: Intercultural Perspectives -- Normative Relations: East Asian on Biomedicine and Bioethics -- Limits of Human Existence According to China's Bioethics -- There is the World, and there is the Map of the World -- Reflections on Human Dignity and the Israeli Cloning Debate -- Conceiving of Human Life -- Globalization and the Dynamic Role of Human Rights in Relation to a Common Perspective for Life Sciences.
Keywords: Life sciences; Ethics; Medical ethics; Medicine-Philosophy.; Culture-Study and teaching; Medical laws and legislation; Life Sciences, general; Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Medicine; Regional and Cultural Studies; Medical Law