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Book SynopsisThis book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics.
Table of ContentsContents: The Claim of Bioethics – The Moral State of the Embryo – The Power of Feelings in Bioethics – Human Reproductive Cloning and Germ Line Therapy – Could Computers Feel Like Humans? (Qualia) – Patients with Serious Brain Damage – Do Humans Have a Free Will? – The Problem of Mercy Killing – Eternal Dignity – The Metaphysical Concept of Presumed Will.
