Kierkegaard and Bioethics

This book explores Kierkegaard's significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard's existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates.

Autorentext

Johann-Christian Põder is a Junior Professor of Ethics at the University of Rostock, Germany. He is the co-editor, with John-Stewart Gordon and Holger Burckhart, of Human Rights and Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2017).

Klappentext

This book explores Kierkegaard's significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard's existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates.

Inhalt

Introduction: Kierkegaard and Bioethics Johann-Christian Põder Part 1: Existential Framing of Bioethics 1. Bioethics in the Spirit of Kierkegaard Vilhjálmur Árnason 2. Anxiety, Hope, and the Life Sciences: Towards an Anthropological Foundation of Bioethics Marcus Düwell Part 2: Concepts of Health, Disease, and Disability 3. Kierkegaard's Conception of Health and Sickness and the Idea of Diagnostic Anthropology Jakub Marek 4. Being a 'Justified Exception': Kierkegaard on Mental and Bodily Dispositions Jonas Hodel Part 3: Today's Medical Developments: Prediction and Enhancement 5. Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Predictive Medicine Henning Nörenberg and Johann-Christian Põder 6. Humankind and Biotechnology. Habermas, Kierkegaard, and a Religious Perspective on Enhancement Hermann Diebel-Fischer Part 4: Psychiatry and Trauma Studies 7. Kierkegaard's Ethics of Suffering and the Biomedical Challenge of Autonomy René Rosfort 8. Becoming through Rupture: Kierkegaardian Reflection on Contemporary Trauma Discourse Anna Westin Part 5: Current Debates in Bioethics: COVID-19, Gender Identity 9. Existential Ethics and Public Policy: On the Value of Life, Just Cause, and Moral Demand Mélissa Fox-Muraton 10. Kierkegaard, Gender Identity, and Bioethics: How to Receive the Other Oliver Norman