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The Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing
recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a
biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics.
Volume 4 provides a comprehensive single-volume summary of recent
international and regional developments on specific topics in
bioethics. To give uniformity to the discussions all authors were
asked to report on the following topics: new reproductive
technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, case of severely
disabled newborns, consent of treatment and experimentation,
confidentiality, equitable access to health care, ethical concerns
raised by cost-containment measures, decisions to withhold or
withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active euthanasia, the
definition of death, organ donation and transplantation, and a
final broad category of other issues. The internationally respected
contributors report on the following 16 areas: the United States,
Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the
Netherlands, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Spain/Portugal/Italy,
Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand.
The commentators draw on three sets of resources: Statutes,
legislative proposals, and regulatory changes that directly
influence or have implications for, areas of bioethical concern;
Case law and court judgments that shape, either decisively or
suggestively, recent legal interpretations of particular issues of
areas in bioethics; Formal statements of governmentally appointed
commissions, advisory bodies, and representative professional
groups, as well as less formal statements and recommendations of
other organisations. In addition to providing timely summaries of
recent developments, the volume offers rich and useful
bibliographical references to a wide array of documents, many of
which would be difficult for readers to learn about, given the lack
of centralized international collection of such documents. The
Yearbook will be widely consulted by all bioethicists, public
policy analysts, lawyers and theologians.
As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is
being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral
and religious traditions and in different regions of the world. It
is often difficult, however, to obtain accurate information about
these matters. The Bioethics Yearbook series provides interested
parties with analyses of how such issues as new reproductive
techniques, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, care of seriously
ill newborns, consent, confidentiality, equitable access,
cost-containment, withholding and withdrawing treatment, active
euthanasia, the definition of death, and organ transplantation are
being discussed in different religious traditions and regions.
Volume Three discusses theological developments from 1990--1992 in
Anglican, Baptist, Buddhist, Catholic, Continental Protestant,
Eastern Orthodox, Hindu, Jewish, Latter-Day Saint, Lutheran,
Methodist, Muslim, and Presbyterian traditions. Volume Four will
continue coverage of official governmental and medical society
policies on these topics throughout the world.
As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is
being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral
and religious traditions and in different parts of the world. It is
often difficult, however, to get accurate information about these
matters. The Bioethics Yearbook Series provides interested parties
with analyses of how such issues as new reproductive techniques,
abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, care of seriously ill newborns,
consent, confidentiality, equitable access, cost-containment,
withdrawing treatment, active euthanasia, the definition of death,
and organ transplantation are being discussed in these different
traditions and different parts of the world. The first volume, and
every second succeeding volume, will discuss developments in the
Anglican, Baptist, Buddhist, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Hindu,
Jewish, LDS, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim, and Presbyterian
Traditions. The second volume, and every second volume succeeding
it, will discuss official governmental and medical society policies
on these topics throughout the world.
As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is
being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral
and religious traditions and in different regions of the world. It
is often difficult, however, to obtain timely information about
these matters. The Bioethics Yearbook series analyzes how such
issues as new reproductive techniques, abortion, maternal-fetal
conflicts, care of seriously ill newborns, consent,
confidentiality, equitable access, cost-containment, withholding
and withdrawing treatment, euthanasia, the definition of death, and
organ transplantation are being discussed in different religions
and regions. Volume 5 discusses theological developments from 1992
to 1994 in Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness,
Jewish, Latter-Day Saint, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim, Pentecostal,
and Presbyterian traditions.
Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious
communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical
perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary
biomedical ethics is that of rights'. Duties to Others begins to
correct this imbalance in our ethical language through theoretical
expositions of the ideas of duty and of the other', and by applied
exemplifications of particular duties to identified others that
arise in the context of health care. A pronounced multidisciplinary
orientation informs this analysis of our moral call to respond to
the needs of others. The essays in this volume offer a stimulating
intellectual freshness through a continual engagement of
theological, professional, and philosophical understandings of the
duties that arise in our relationships with others in medicine,
nursing, and social contexts. Duties to Others provides provocative
challenges about the terrain of our moral world for both students
and professionals in biomedical ethics, medicine, philosophy, and
theology.
B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny Nearly
every week the general public is treated to an announcement of
another actual or potential "breakthrough" in biotechnology.
Headlines trumpet advances in assisted reproduction, current or
prospective experiments in cloning, and devel- ments in
regenerative medicine, stem cell technologies, and tissue
engineering. Scientific and popular accounts explore the perils and
the possibilities of enhancing human capacities by computer-based,
biomolecular, or mechanical means through advances in artificial
intelligence, genetics, and nanotechnology. Reports abound
concerning ever more sophisticated genetic techniques being
introduced into ag- culture and animal husbandry, as well as
efforts to enhance and protect biodiversity. Given the pace of such
developments, many insightful commentators have proclaimed the 21st
century as the "biotechnology century. " Despite a significant
literature on the morality of these particular advances in
biotechnology, deeper ethical analysis has often been lacking. Our
preliminary review of that literature suggested that current
discussions of normative issues in biotechnology have suffered from
two major deficiencies. First, the discussions have been too often
piecemeal in character, limited to after-the-fact analyses of
particular issues that provoked the debate, and unconnected to
larger concepts and themes. Second, a crucial missing element of
those discussions has been the failure to reflect explicitly on the
diverse disciplinary conceptions of nature and the natural that
shape moral judgments about the legitimacy of specific forms of
research and their applications.
B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny In this
second volume of the "Altering Nature" project, we situate specific
religious and policy discussions of four broad areas of
biotechnology within the context of our interdisciplinary research
on concepts of nature and the natural in the first volume (Altering
Nature, Concepts of Nature and the Natural in Biotechnology
Debates). In the first volume, we invited five groups of scholars
to explore the diverse conc- tions of nature and the natural that
shape moral judgments about human alterations of nature, as
especially exemplified by recent developments in biotechnology. A
careful reading of such developments reveals that assessments of
them-whether positive or negative-are often informed by different
conceptual interpretations of nature and the natural, with
differing implications for judgments about the app- priateness of
particular alterations of nature. These varying interpretations of
nature and the natural often result from the distinctive
perspectives that characterize va- ous scholarly disciplines.
Therefore, in an effort to explore the variety of meanings that
attend discussions of the concepts of nature and the natural, the
contributors to the first volume of Altering Nature addressed those
concepts from five different disciplinary vantages. A first group
of scholars analyzed a range of religious and spiritual
perspectives on concepts of nature and the natural. Their research
highlighted the thematic, h- torical, and methodological
touchstones in those traditions that shape their persp- tives on
nature.
As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is
being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral
and religious traditions and in different regions of the world. It
is often difficult, however, to obtain timely information about
these matters. The Bioethics Yearbook series analyzes how such
issues as new reproductive techniques, abortion, maternal-fetal
conflicts, care of seriously ill newborns, consent,
confidentiality, equitable access, cost-containment, withholding
and withdrawing treatment, euthanasia, the definition of death, and
organ transplantation are being discussed in different religions
and regions. Volume 5 discusses theological developments from 1992
to 1994 in Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness,
Jewish, Latter-Day Saint, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim, Pentecostal,
and Presbyterian traditions.
The Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing
recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a
biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics.
Volume 4 provides a comprehensive single-volume summary of recent
international and regional developments on specific topics in
bioethics. To give uniformity to the discussions all authors were
asked to report on the following topics: new reproductive
technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, case of severely
disabled newborns, consent of treatment and experimentation,
confidentiality, equitable access to health care, ethical concerns
raised by cost-containment measures, decisions to withhold or
withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active euthanasia, the
definition of death, organ donation and transplantation, and a
final broad category of other issues. The internationally respected
contributors report on the following 16 areas: the United States,
Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the
Netherlands, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Spain/Portugal/Italy,
Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand.
The commentators draw on three sets of resources: Statutes,
legislative proposals, and regulatory changes that directly
influence or have implications for, areas of bioethical concern;
Case law and court judgments that shape, either decisively or
suggestively, recent legal interpretations of particular issues of
areas in bioethics; Formal statements of governmentally appointed
commissions, advisory bodies, and representative professional
groups, as well as less formal statements and recommendations of
other organisations. In addition to providing timelysummaries of
recent developments, the volume offers rich and useful
bibliographical references to a wide array of documents, many of
which would be difficult for readers to learn about, given the lack
of centralized international collection of such documents. The
Yearbook will be widely consulted by all bioethicists, public
policy analysts, lawyers and theologians.
Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious
communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical
perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary
biomedical ethics is that of rights'. Duties to Others begins to
correct this imbalance in our ethical language through theoretical
expositions of the ideas of duty and of the other', and by applied
exemplifications of particular duties to identified others that
arise in the context of health care. A pronounced multidisciplinary
orientation informs this analysis of our moral call to respond to
the needs of others. The essays in this volume offer a stimulating
intellectual freshness through a continual engagement of
theological, professional, and philosophical understandings of the
duties that arise in our relationships with others in medicine,
nursing, and social contexts. Duties to Others provides provocative
challenges about the terrain of our moral world for both students
and professionals in biomedical ethics, medicine, philosophy, and
theology.
As noted in Volume 1, the Yearbook series alternates between a
biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in
bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions
in bioethics. Volume 2 provides for the first time a comprehensive
single-volume summary of recent international and regional
developments on specific topics in bioethics. To give uniformity to
the discussions all authors were asked to report on the following
topics: new reproductive technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal
conflicts, case of severely disabled newborns, consent of treatment
and experimentation, confidentiality, equitable access to health
care, ethical concerns raised by cost-containment measures,
decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active
euthanasia, the definition of death, organ donation and
transplantation. The internationally respected contributors report
on the following 16 areas: the United States, Canada, Latin
America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the Netherlands,
Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Eastern Europe,
Spain/Portugal/Italy/Scandinavia, India, Southeast Asia, China,
Japan, Australia/New Zealand, Council of Europe/EEC. The
commentators draw on three sets of resources: Statutes, legislative
proposals, and regulatory changes that directly influence, or have
implications for, areas of bioethical concern; Case law and court
judgments that shape, either decisively or suggestively, recent
legal interpretations of particular issues of areas in bioethics;
Formal statements of governmentally appointed commissions, advisory
bodies, and representative professional groups, as well as less
formal statements and recommendations of other organisations. In
addition to providing timely summaries of recent developments, the
volume offers rich and useful bibliographical references to a wide
array of documents, many of which would be difficult for readers to
learn about, given the lack of centralized international collection
of such documents. The Yearbook should be widely consulted by all
bioethicists, public policy analysts, lawyers and theologians.
As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is
being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral
and religious traditions and in different parts of the world. It is
often difficult, however, to get accurate information about these
matters. The Bioethics Yearbook Series provides interested parties
with analyses of how such issues as new reproductive techniques,
abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, care of seriously ill newborns,
consent, confidentiality, equitable access, cost-containment,
withdrawing treatment, active euthanasia, the definition of death,
and organ transplantation are being discussed in these different
traditions and different parts of the world. The first volume, and
every second succeeding volume, will discuss developments in the
Anglican, Baptist, Buddhist, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Hindu,
Jewish, LDS, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim, and Presbyterian
Traditions. The second volume, and every second volume succeeding
it, will discuss official governmental and medical society policies
on these topics throughout the world.
B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny In this
second volume of the "Altering Nature" project, we situate specific
religious and policy discussions of four broad areas of
biotechnology within the context of our interdisciplinary research
on concepts of nature and the natural in the first volume (Altering
Nature, Concepts of Nature and the Natural in Biotechnology
Debates). In the first volume, we invited five groups of scholars
to explore the diverse conc- tions of nature and the natural that
shape moral judgments about human alterations of nature, as
especially exemplified by recent developments in biotechnology. A
careful reading of such developments reveals that assessments of
them-whether positive or negative-are often informed by different
conceptual interpretations of nature and the natural, with
differing implications for judgments about the app- priateness of
particular alterations of nature. These varying interpretations of
nature and the natural often result from the distinctive
perspectives that characterize va- ous scholarly disciplines.
Therefore, in an effort to explore the variety of meanings that
attend discussions of the concepts of nature and the natural, the
contributors to the first volume of Altering Nature addressed those
concepts from five different disciplinary vantages. A first group
of scholars analyzed a range of religious and spiritual
perspectives on concepts of nature and the natural. Their research
highlighted the thematic, h- torical, and methodological
touchstones in those traditions that shape their persp- tives on
nature.
As noted in Volume 1, the Yearbook series alternates between a
biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in
bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions
in bioethics. Volume 2 provides for the first time a comprehensive
single-volume summary of recent international and regional
developments on specific topics in bioethics. To give uniformity to
the discussions all authors were asked to report on the following
topics: new reproductive technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal
conflicts, case of severely disabled newborns, consent of treatment
and experimentation, confidentiality, equitable access to health
care, ethical concerns raised by cost-containment measures,
decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active
euthanasia, the definition of death, organ donation and
transplantation. The internationally respected contributors report
on the following 16 areas: the United States, Canada, Latin
America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the Netherlands,
Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Eastern Europe,
Spain/Portugal/Italy/Scandinavia, India, Southeast Asia, China,
Japan, Australia/New Zealand, Council of Europe/EEC. The
commentators draw on three sets of resources: Statutes, legislative
proposals, and regulatory changes that directly influence, or have
implications for, areas of bioethical concern; Case law and court
judgments that shape, either decisively or suggestively, recent
legal interpretations of particular issues of areas in bioethics;
Formal statements of governmentally appointed commissions, advisory
bodies, and representative professional groups, as well as less
formal statements and recommendations of other organisations. In
addition to providing timely summaries of recent developments, the
volume offers rich and useful bibliographical references to a wide
array of documents, many of which would be difficult for readers to
learn about, given the lack of centralized international collection
of such documents. The Yearbook should be widely consulted by all
bioethicists, public policy analysts, lawyers and theologians.
B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny Nearly
every week the general public is treated to an announcement of
another actual or potential "breakthrough" in biotechnology.
Headlines trumpet advances in assisted reproduction, current or
prospective experiments in cloning, and devel- ments in
regenerative medicine, stem cell technologies, and tissue
engineering. Scientific and popular accounts explore the perils and
the possibilities of enhancing human capacities by computer-based,
biomolecular, or mechanical means through advances in artificial
intelligence, genetics, and nanotechnology. Reports abound
concerning ever more sophisticated genetic techniques being
introduced into ag- culture and animal husbandry, as well as
efforts to enhance and protect biodiversity. Given the pace of such
developments, many insightful commentators have proclaimed the 21st
century as the "biotechnology century. " Despite a significant
literature on the morality of these particular advances in
biotechnology, deeper ethical analysis has often been lacking. Our
preliminary review of that literature suggested that current
discussions of normative issues in biotechnology have suffered from
two major deficiencies. First, the discussions have been too often
piecemeal in character, limited to after-the-fact analyses of
particular issues that provoked the debate, and unconnected to
larger concepts and themes. Second, a crucial missing element of
those discussions has been the failure to reflect explicitly on the
diverse disciplinary conceptions of nature and the natural that
shape moral judgments about the legitimacy of specific forms of
research and their applications.
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