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The Concept of moral consensus : the case of technological interventions in human reproduction / edited by Kurt Bayertz.
- Title
- The Concept of moral consensus : the case of technological interventions in human reproduction / edited by Kurt Bayertz.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Bayertz, Kurt.
- Description
- vii, 249 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The demand for consensus arises due to its absence. For each opinion held there will be another to counter it, and for each approach to problem solving an alternative will be suggested. Focusing on the bioethical problems surrounding new technological interventions in human reproduction, 15 authors examine the meaning, importance and feasibility of consensus.
- The very different perspectives from the philosophers, physicians, lawyers, theologians, politicians and sociologists contributing to this topic reflect on the difficulties and complexity of moral decision making, offer views on the problem of why decision making does not take place more harmoniously and ask if there can be any hope of a solution in a world where the discipline of contemporary ethics is characterized by a vast diversity - or chaos - of heterogenous theories and competing approaches.
- This book is intended for philosophers, physicians, ethicists and everyone involved in moral decision making, to shape his or her understanding of this process and to help him or her to reflect on the concept of consensus.
- Series Statement
- Philosophy and medicine ; v. 46
- Uniform Title
- Philosophy and medicine ; v. 46.
- Subjects
- Ethics Committees
- Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
- Social Sciences
- Medical ethics > Congresses
- Consensus (Social sciences) > Congresses
- Congress
- Consensus Sequence
- Ethics, Medical
- Ethics committees > Decision making > Congresses
- Reproductive Techniques
- Medical Laboratory Science
- Genre/Form
- Congress.
- Note
- "The volume descends from a conference held at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany, October 4 through 6, 1990"--Pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Kurt Bayertz and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Introduction: Moral Consensus as a Social and Philosophical Problem / Kurt Bayertz -- Consensus: How Much Can We Hope for? A Conceptual Exploration Illustrated by Recent Debates Regarding the Use of Human Reproductive Technologies / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- The Concept of Moral Consensus. Philosophical Reflections / Kurt Bayertz -- Consensus Formation for Bioethical Problems (Comments on Bayertz) / Ludger Honnefelder -- Consensus, Pluralism and Procedural Ethics (Comments on Bayertz, Engelhardt) / Henk A. M. J. ten Have -- New Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Conflict and the Problem of Consensus (Comments on Bayertz, Engelhardt) / Helga Kuhse -- Problems Involved in Achieving a Policy Consensus on Issues Related to Reproductive Medicine / Wolf-Michael Catenhusen -- Moral Consensus and the Law (Comments on Bayertz, Engelhardt) / Carl Wellman.
- Coming to Consensus: An Ethical Problem in Law and Politics - Illustrated by the Example of Reproductive Technologies (Comments on Bayertz) / Alberto Bondolfi -- The Empirical Limits of Consensus: Can Theory and Practice be Reconciled? (Comments on Bayertz, Engelhardt, Moreno) / Laurence R. Tancredi -- Consensus by Committee: Philosophical and Social Aspects of Ethics Committees / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Consensus in Ethics and Public Policy: The Deliberations of the U.S. Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel / James F. Childress -- Consensus by Default. The Transition from the Social Technology of Eugenics to the "Technological-FIX" of Human Genetics / Peter Weingart -- Beyond Consensus About Principles: Decision-Making by a Genetics Advisory Board in Reproductive Medicine (Comments on Bayertz, Moreno) / Simone Novaes.
- "... and that is why I would like as few people to be involved as possible..." Observations on the Possibilities Offered by Consensus Achievement Within the Field of the Human Reproductive Technologies (Comments on Bayertz, Engelhardt, Moreno) / Andreas Voss -- A Skeptical Postscript: Some Concluding Reflections on Consensus / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
- ISBN
- 0792326156 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 93040700
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries