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This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in
bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and
multi-religious society. It offers original contributions by
specialists in bioethics exploring new ways of understanding
normativity in bioethics. In bioethical publications and debates,
the concept of normativity is often used without consideration of
the difficulties surrounding it, whereas there are many competing
claims for normativity within bioethics. Examples of such competing
normative bioethical discourses can be perceived in variations and
differences in bioethical arguments within individual religions,
and the opposition between bioethical arguments from specific
religions and arguments from bioethicists who do not claim
religious allegiance. We also cannot merely assume that a Western
understanding of normative bioethics will be unproblematic in
bioethics in non-Western cultures and religions. Through an
analysis of normativity in Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and
Jewish bioethics, the book creates awareness of the complexity of
normativity in bioethics. The book also covers normative bioethics
outside an explicitly religiously committed context, and specific
attention is paid to bioethics as an interdisciplinary endeavor. It
reveals how normativity relates to empirical and global bioethics,
which challenges it faces in bioethics in secular pluralistic
society, and how to overcome these. By doing that, this book fills
an important gap in bioethics literature.
This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in
bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and
multi-religious society. It offers original contributions by
specialists in bioethics exploring new ways of understanding
normativity in bioethics. In bioethical publications and debates,
the concept of normativity is often used without consideration of
the difficulties surrounding it, whereas there are many competing
claims for normativity within bioethics. Examples of such competing
normative bioethical discourses can be perceived in variations and
differences in bioethical arguments within individual religions,
and the opposition between bioethical arguments from specific
religions and arguments from bioethicists who do not claim
religious allegiance. We also cannot merely assume that a Western
understanding of normative bioethics will be unproblematic in
bioethics in non-Western cultures and religions. Through an
analysis of normativity in Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and
Jewish bioethics, the book creates awareness of the complexity of
normativity in bioethics. The book also covers normative bioethics
outside an explicitly religiously committed context, and specific
attention is paid to bioethics as an interdisciplinary endeavor. It
reveals how normativity relates to empirical and global bioethics,
which challenges it faces in bioethics in secular pluralistic
society, and how to overcome these. By doing that, this book fills
an important gap in bioethics literature.
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