Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law
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ISBN-13: 9781849461771
ISBN-10: 1849461775
Pagini: 218
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1849461775
Pagini: 218
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Drawing on clinical, anthropological, philosophical and legal insights, Foster provides a new lexicon and grammar that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to travel in the outlandish territories of bioethics.Will be useful to both practitioners an academics but its accessible, readable style and controversial topic will make it of interest to non-lawyers.
Notă biografică
Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He teaches medical ethics and law at the University of Oxford, and is also a barrister practising medical law from Outer Temple Chambers, London.
Cuprins
1. Beginnings 2. A Short History of Dignity 3. Defining and Dissecting Dignity 4. 'Dignity is Useless' 5. What do Non-philosophers and Non-lawyers Mean by Dignity? 6. Taking Stock of the View from the Academy and the Ward 7. Dignity in the Courtroom: General Overview 8. Consent, Confidentiality, Privacy, Medical Research and Resources 9. Human Enhancement and Cloning Technologies 10. Reproductive Choice and the Unborn 11. The End of Life 12. The Use and Abuse of Body Parts
Recenzii
The book follows a well-conceived structure. Foster's style is pugnacious and self-assured, albeit dosed with a healthy injection of self-deprecation. He is careful to explain why he draws from the different sources he taps into, which encompass some of the lofty climes of theological, philosophical, and legal theory, as well as the less heady terrain of base intuition and (heaven forbid in a work on philosophical bioethics!) the views of practitioners, patients and lay people.I would be happy to recommend the book to anyone in bioethics who is looking for a positive account of dignity, presented in a philosophical, legal, historical, social and professional context.Foster's work presents a welcome challenge to ethical theorists in bioethics, and a fascinating account of how we might understand the substance and import of a particular concept of dignity.
Students, in particular, would appreciate the availability of such a straightforward approach that would cover, as Foster seeks to do in just 66 pages, the intractable dilemmas associated with: consent, confidentiality, privacy, medical research and resources...human enhancement and cloning technologies...reproductive choice and the unborn...the end of life...and the use and abuse of body partsThrough this book, Foster has succeeded in provoking further consideration of the utility of dignity in bioethics and law
Foster's writing is wide-ranging and erudite. His call to the bioethics community to consider dignity is timely and makes for an engaging read.
Charles Foster has written a book that is lively, engaging, and pacey [and] has surely done us a considerable service in provoking readers to think much more seriously about the centrality of human dignity in both biolaw and bioethics.
Foster has produced a very readable and engaging text with some interesting and relatable issues and anecdotes as illustrations to his thesis....it is an important book for people with an interest in this area to read, as it serves as a reminder of how significant the principle of dignity is in bioethics and law...Given the overwhelming praise for this book from some prominent names in the medical law and bioethics field, I strongly advise you to read this book and make up your own mind.
Foster's latest book is highly stimulating, entertaining and accessible in its arguments.[it] is a fascinating and challenging work that can readily form the basis for sophisticated analysis of any of the hardest issues in contemporary bioethics. Its aspirations are framed at a high level but it realises most of them. It can be heartily recommended for all with an interest in the ethics of contemporary health care.It is a fine piece of work.
I never had any respect for the concept of human dignity. I thought it was a motherhood concept, empty of real practical import. But Foster converted me. Foster, uniquely, goes the right way round: identifying real human problems and trying to solve them, rather than starting with philosophical problems and theories and creating a concept of dignity that fits them. This is a book for people and progress. It's the best book on dignity I know.
This book is the perfect antidote to the unseemly polemics that have dominated recent debates about the concept of dignity in bioethics. Foster takes the notion of dignity seriously and argues that it is indispensible to deliberations about pressing issues in bioethics such as informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, cloning, enhancement, and the use of body parts. He argues that the concept is more fundamental than our concepts of autonomy, rights, and justice, and requires us to think hard about more substantive issues such as what it means to be human and what it means to flourish as a human being. He presents an excellent overview of the current literature on dignity in bioethics, usefully collecting together in one place sources from philosophy, clinical bioethics, law, international conventions, and the blogosphere. While scholarly, it is accessibly written in lucid and lively prose. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law is a substantial contribution that moves the debate on this contentious but important issue up to the next level.
In Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law Charles Foster sets out an argument that is provocative in its simplicity: dignity is the 'bioethical theory of everything', the value by which all bioethical disputes should be adjudicated. Drawing extensively from both philosophical and legal debates, this book makes an important contribution to a central issue facing societies in the 21st Century. It deserves to be highly influential for academics and practitioners alike.
Charles Foster's Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law sets out clearly the state of the question regarding the basis of personal dignity. It also advances an original argument to defend a substantive content for the concept of dignity. It is worthy of study and re-study.
Charles Foster has written a remarkably thoughtful and eloquent book, arguing persuasively that 'human dignity' - not 'autonomy' or any other narrow principle - is the indispensable lens through which to view the perplexing moral landscape of contemporary bioethics. I learned much from this comprehensive, open-minded, and deeply humane volume.
This is a spirited study, engagingly written, deeply immersed in the relevant literature, and rich in insight. A valuable contribution to the study of human dignity from a bioethical perspective.
Charles Foster's analysis and defence of the concept of dignity as fundamental in medical law and ethics is to be welcomed warmly by scholars and students of the field. It is written with his characteristic verve and panache, yet is at the same time thoughtful and scholarly. We are all in his debt for his analysis of the philosophical, historical, sociological and legal accounts of dignity. And even if you do not accept all his normative conclusions, his demonstrations of dignity-based reasoning in law and ethics are genuinely illuminating and helpful.
Respecting patients' dignity is one of the most commonly used ideas in bioethics: whether in professional guidelines, in legal judgments or in casual conversation. And yet philosophers, on the whole, don't like it. Many argue that it is too vague and that it can be replaced by other, better concepts, such as autonomy. Indeed this was my position. Foster, however, swims strongly against this philosophical tide and has forced me to rethink. Those who want to sideline dignity will need to read this book and engage with Foster's arguments. Those more open to the importance of dignity will enjoy Foster's company as he informs and amuses the reader with bizarre legal cases and forceful analyses.
Dignity has long been considered the most protean of ethical concepts - shape-shifting, frustratingly elusive, impossible to pin down - but in this invigorating book, Charles Foster argues powerfully for dignity to be reinstated at the heart of thinking about ethics in medical practice. Dignity is, in Foster's hands, a richly empirical concept concerning the embodied and socially embedded moral lives of real people and what it is that makes it possible for them to 'flourish': the normative force of dignity being provided by empirical evidence about the interpersonal conditions under which humans either do or don't thrive. Through an analysis of real and hypothetical cases, Foster argues that ethics should be concerned with the encouragement (the maximisation even) of such relationships. Foster believes that the normative force of dignity 'is best appreciated in the wild places', illustrating this through a number of worked examples concerning 'places' such as reproductive choice and 'enhancement'. But ultimately, perhaps, it is in the interactions between human beings in the quotidian settings of health care practice, discussed in earlier chapters, in which dignity is shown at its most powerful as a way of knowing the difference between ethical and unethical practices and where dignity is or is close to being, as Foster argues - at the heart of everything.
This brilliant, erudite, and yet common-sensical book is written by a moral philosopher and lawyer who reasonably hates Kant, sees clearly the limits of autonomy in describing who we are, and defends ably the dignity of the embodied, relational beings we are. I certainly agree that dignity has a substantial meaning that can be deployed by real people making challenging decisions, and I now know a lot more about why that is so.
The Beauchamp-Childress medical ethic paradigm has dominated medical ethics for four decades. It never worked very well but it was teachable, flexible, and transparent. Foster gives us a better paradigm - teachable, transparent, and plausible. Better yet a paradigm - human dignity - that is likely to make us better people, better physicians, and better care givers. Foster refocuses us on what is truly common among us as a basis for dealing with the central ethical issues of health care, patient care, and death care. This is a new reconceiving of medical ethics and everyone who cares about these matters needs to get comfortable with thinking in this refreshing new way.
Wide-ranging and erudite, Foster's book 'Takes Dignity Seriously'. Dignity is shown to be a core value in law and bioethics, foundational, a lens through which to project hard cases. It is a rare book which finds a common thread to questions as disparate as euthanasia, sado-masochism, enhancement, cloning, abortion, refusals of medical treatment by children, and numerous other areas of controversy. But this is achieved thoughtfully, entertainingly, and persuasively, in the process throwing new light on many leading cases in the UK , USA, Germany and Israel. It is bound to provoke debate, even controversy. It will be a great assignment for university seminars.
Students, in particular, would appreciate the availability of such a straightforward approach that would cover, as Foster seeks to do in just 66 pages, the intractable dilemmas associated with: consent, confidentiality, privacy, medical research and resources...human enhancement and cloning technologies...reproductive choice and the unborn...the end of life...and the use and abuse of body partsThrough this book, Foster has succeeded in provoking further consideration of the utility of dignity in bioethics and law
Foster's writing is wide-ranging and erudite. His call to the bioethics community to consider dignity is timely and makes for an engaging read.
Charles Foster has written a book that is lively, engaging, and pacey [and] has surely done us a considerable service in provoking readers to think much more seriously about the centrality of human dignity in both biolaw and bioethics.
Foster has produced a very readable and engaging text with some interesting and relatable issues and anecdotes as illustrations to his thesis....it is an important book for people with an interest in this area to read, as it serves as a reminder of how significant the principle of dignity is in bioethics and law...Given the overwhelming praise for this book from some prominent names in the medical law and bioethics field, I strongly advise you to read this book and make up your own mind.
Foster's latest book is highly stimulating, entertaining and accessible in its arguments.[it] is a fascinating and challenging work that can readily form the basis for sophisticated analysis of any of the hardest issues in contemporary bioethics. Its aspirations are framed at a high level but it realises most of them. It can be heartily recommended for all with an interest in the ethics of contemporary health care.It is a fine piece of work.
I never had any respect for the concept of human dignity. I thought it was a motherhood concept, empty of real practical import. But Foster converted me. Foster, uniquely, goes the right way round: identifying real human problems and trying to solve them, rather than starting with philosophical problems and theories and creating a concept of dignity that fits them. This is a book for people and progress. It's the best book on dignity I know.
This book is the perfect antidote to the unseemly polemics that have dominated recent debates about the concept of dignity in bioethics. Foster takes the notion of dignity seriously and argues that it is indispensible to deliberations about pressing issues in bioethics such as informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, cloning, enhancement, and the use of body parts. He argues that the concept is more fundamental than our concepts of autonomy, rights, and justice, and requires us to think hard about more substantive issues such as what it means to be human and what it means to flourish as a human being. He presents an excellent overview of the current literature on dignity in bioethics, usefully collecting together in one place sources from philosophy, clinical bioethics, law, international conventions, and the blogosphere. While scholarly, it is accessibly written in lucid and lively prose. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law is a substantial contribution that moves the debate on this contentious but important issue up to the next level.
In Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law Charles Foster sets out an argument that is provocative in its simplicity: dignity is the 'bioethical theory of everything', the value by which all bioethical disputes should be adjudicated. Drawing extensively from both philosophical and legal debates, this book makes an important contribution to a central issue facing societies in the 21st Century. It deserves to be highly influential for academics and practitioners alike.
Charles Foster's Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law sets out clearly the state of the question regarding the basis of personal dignity. It also advances an original argument to defend a substantive content for the concept of dignity. It is worthy of study and re-study.
Charles Foster has written a remarkably thoughtful and eloquent book, arguing persuasively that 'human dignity' - not 'autonomy' or any other narrow principle - is the indispensable lens through which to view the perplexing moral landscape of contemporary bioethics. I learned much from this comprehensive, open-minded, and deeply humane volume.
This is a spirited study, engagingly written, deeply immersed in the relevant literature, and rich in insight. A valuable contribution to the study of human dignity from a bioethical perspective.
Charles Foster's analysis and defence of the concept of dignity as fundamental in medical law and ethics is to be welcomed warmly by scholars and students of the field. It is written with his characteristic verve and panache, yet is at the same time thoughtful and scholarly. We are all in his debt for his analysis of the philosophical, historical, sociological and legal accounts of dignity. And even if you do not accept all his normative conclusions, his demonstrations of dignity-based reasoning in law and ethics are genuinely illuminating and helpful.
Respecting patients' dignity is one of the most commonly used ideas in bioethics: whether in professional guidelines, in legal judgments or in casual conversation. And yet philosophers, on the whole, don't like it. Many argue that it is too vague and that it can be replaced by other, better concepts, such as autonomy. Indeed this was my position. Foster, however, swims strongly against this philosophical tide and has forced me to rethink. Those who want to sideline dignity will need to read this book and engage with Foster's arguments. Those more open to the importance of dignity will enjoy Foster's company as he informs and amuses the reader with bizarre legal cases and forceful analyses.
Dignity has long been considered the most protean of ethical concepts - shape-shifting, frustratingly elusive, impossible to pin down - but in this invigorating book, Charles Foster argues powerfully for dignity to be reinstated at the heart of thinking about ethics in medical practice. Dignity is, in Foster's hands, a richly empirical concept concerning the embodied and socially embedded moral lives of real people and what it is that makes it possible for them to 'flourish': the normative force of dignity being provided by empirical evidence about the interpersonal conditions under which humans either do or don't thrive. Through an analysis of real and hypothetical cases, Foster argues that ethics should be concerned with the encouragement (the maximisation even) of such relationships. Foster believes that the normative force of dignity 'is best appreciated in the wild places', illustrating this through a number of worked examples concerning 'places' such as reproductive choice and 'enhancement'. But ultimately, perhaps, it is in the interactions between human beings in the quotidian settings of health care practice, discussed in earlier chapters, in which dignity is shown at its most powerful as a way of knowing the difference between ethical and unethical practices and where dignity is or is close to being, as Foster argues - at the heart of everything.
This brilliant, erudite, and yet common-sensical book is written by a moral philosopher and lawyer who reasonably hates Kant, sees clearly the limits of autonomy in describing who we are, and defends ably the dignity of the embodied, relational beings we are. I certainly agree that dignity has a substantial meaning that can be deployed by real people making challenging decisions, and I now know a lot more about why that is so.
The Beauchamp-Childress medical ethic paradigm has dominated medical ethics for four decades. It never worked very well but it was teachable, flexible, and transparent. Foster gives us a better paradigm - teachable, transparent, and plausible. Better yet a paradigm - human dignity - that is likely to make us better people, better physicians, and better care givers. Foster refocuses us on what is truly common among us as a basis for dealing with the central ethical issues of health care, patient care, and death care. This is a new reconceiving of medical ethics and everyone who cares about these matters needs to get comfortable with thinking in this refreshing new way.
Wide-ranging and erudite, Foster's book 'Takes Dignity Seriously'. Dignity is shown to be a core value in law and bioethics, foundational, a lens through which to project hard cases. It is a rare book which finds a common thread to questions as disparate as euthanasia, sado-masochism, enhancement, cloning, abortion, refusals of medical treatment by children, and numerous other areas of controversy. But this is achieved thoughtfully, entertainingly, and persuasively, in the process throwing new light on many leading cases in the UK , USA, Germany and Israel. It is bound to provoke debate, even controversy. It will be a great assignment for university seminars.
Descriere
For most problems in contemporary bioethics, existing principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and professional probity can do a reasonably workmanlike job if they are all allowed to contribute appropriately. But these are second order principles, each of which traces its origins back to dignity. And when one gets to the frontiers of bioethics (such as human enhancement),dignity is the only conceivable language with which to describe and analyse the strange conceptual creatures found there.
Drawing on clinical, anthropological, philosophical and legal insights, Foster provides a new lexicon and grammar of that language which is essential reading for anyone wanting to travel in the outlandish territories of bioethics, and strongly recommended for anyone wanting to travel comfortably anywhere in bioethics or medical law.'The Beauchamp-Childress medical ethic paradigm has dominated medical ethics for four decades. It never worked very well but it was teachable, flexible, and transparent. Foster gives us a better paradigm - teachable, transparent, and plausible.
Better yet a paradigm - human dignity - that is likely to make us better people, better physicians, and better care givers. Foster refocuses us on what is truly common among us as a basis for dealing with the central ethical issues of health care, patient care, and death care. This is a new reconceiving of medical ethics and everyone who cares about these matters needs to get comfortable with thinking in this refreshing new way.'Stefan Baumrin, Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York, Graduate Center, and Professor of Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New YorkWide-ranging and erudite, Fosters book Takes Dignity Seriously.
Dignity is shown to be a core value in law and bioethics, foundational, a lens through which to project hard cases. It is a rare book which finds a common thread to questions as disparate as euthanasia, sado-masochism, enhancement, cloning, abortion, refusals of medical treatment by children, and numerous other areas of controversy. But this is achieved thoughtfully, entertainingly, and persuasively, in the process throwing new light on many leading cases in the UK , USA, Germany and Israel.
It is bound to provoke debate, even controversy. It will be a great assignment for university seminars.Michael Freeman FBA, Professor of English Law, UCLI never had any respect for the concept of human dignity. I thought it was a motherhood concept, empty of real practical import.
But Foster converted me. Foster, uniquely, goes the right way round, identifying real human problems and trying to solve them, rather than starting with philosophical problems and theories and creating a concept of dignity that fits them. This is a book for people and progress.
Its the best book on dignity I know.Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics, University of OxfordThis book is the perfect antidote to the unseemly polemics that have dominated recent debates about the concept of dignity in bioethics. Foster takes the notion of dignity seriously and argues that it is indispensible to deliberations aboutpressing issues in bioethics such as informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, cloning, enhancement, and the use of body parts. He argues that the concept is more fundamental than our concepts of autonomy, rights, and justice, and requires us to think hard about more substantive issues such as what it means to be human and what it means to flourish as a human being.
He presents an excellent overview of the current literature on dignity in bioethics, usefully collecting together in oneplace sources from philosophy, clinical bioethics, law, international conventions, and the blogosphere. While scholarly, it is accessibly written in lucid and lively prose. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law is a substantial contribution that moves the debate on this contentious but important issue up to the next level.Daniel P Sulmasy, Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics, University of ChicagoIn Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law Charles Foster sets out an argument that is provocative in its simplicity: dignity is the bioethical theory of everything, the value by which all bioethical disputes should be adjudicated.
Drawing extensivelyfrom both philosophical and legal debates, this book makes an important contribution to a central issue facing societies in the 21st Century. It deserves to be highly influential for academics and practitioners alike.Suzy Killmister, Massey UniversityCharles Fosters Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law sets out clearly the state of the question regarding the basis of personal dignity. It also advances an original argument to defend a substantive content for the concept of dignity.It is worthy of study and re-study.
Patrick Lee, John N and Jamie D McAleer Professor of Bioethics. Director, Institute of Bioethics, Franciscan Universityof SteubenvilleCharles Foster has written a remarkably thoughtful and eloquent book, arguing persuasively that human dignitynot autonomy or any other narrow principleis the indispensable lens through which to view the perplexing moral landscape of contemporary bioethics. I learned much from this comprehensive, open-minded, and deeply humane volume.Adam Schulman, co-editor of Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the Presidents Council on BioethicsThis is a spirited study, engagingly written, deeply immersed in the relevant literature, and rich in insight.
A valuable contribution to the study of human dignity from a bioethical perspective.George Kateb, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton UniversityCharles Fosters analysis and defence of the concept of dignity as fundamental in medical law and ethics is to be welcomed warmly by scholars and students of the field. It is written with his characteristic verve and panache, yet is at the same timethoughtful and scholarly. We are all in his debt for his analysis of the philosophical, historical, sociological and legal accounts of dignity.
And even if you do not accept all his normative conclusions, his demonstrations of dignity-based reasoning in law and ethics are genuinely illuminating and helpful.Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary College, LondonRespecting patients dignity is one of the most commonly used ideas in bioethics: whether in professional guidelines, in legal judgments or in casual conversation. And yet philosophers, on the whole, dont like it. Many argue that it is too vagueand that it can be replaced by other, better concepts, such as autonomy.
Indeed this was my position. Foster, however, swims strongly against this philosophical tide and has forced me to rethink. Those who want to sideline dignity will needto read this book and engage with Fosters arguments.
Those more open to the importance of dignity will enjoy Fosters company as he informs and amuses the reader with bizarre legal cases and forceful analyses.Tony Hope, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of OxfordDignity has long been considered the most protean of ethical conceptsshapeshifting, frustratingly elusive, impossible to pin downbut in this invigorating book, Charles Foster argues powerfully for dignity to be reinstated at the heart of thinking about ethics in medical practice. Dignity is, in Fosters hands, a richly empirical concept concerning the embodied and socially embedded moral lives of real people and what it is that makes it possible for them to flourish: the normativeforce of dignity being provided by empirical evidence about the interpersonal conditions under which humans either do or dont thrive. Through an analysis of real and hypothetical cases, Foster argues that ethics should be concerned withthe encouragement (the maximisation even) of such relationships.
Foster believes that the normative force of dignity is best appreciated in the wild places, illustrating this through a number of worked examples concerning places such as reproductive choice and enhancement. But ultimately, perhaps, it is in the interactions between human beings in the quotidian settings of health care practice, discussed in earlier chapters, in which dignity is shown at its most powerful as a way of knowing the difference between ethical and unethical practices and where dignity is or is close to being, as Foster arguesat the heart of everything.Michael Parker, Professor of Bioethics, University of OxfordThis brilliant, erudite, and yet common-sensical book is written by a moral philosopher and lawyer who reasonably hates Kant, sees clearly the limits of autonomy in describing who we are, and defends ably the dignity of the embodied,relational beings we are. I certainly agree that dignity has a substantial meaning that can be deployed by real people making challenging decisions, and I now know a lot more about why that is so.Peter Lawler, Dana Professor of Government, Berry College, Georgia and author of Modern and American Dignity