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To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body [Paperback]

Gerald P. McKenny (Author)

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Publication Date: August 21, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0791434745 | ISBN-13: 978-0791434741 | Edition: 1

This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

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Gerald McKenny is coeditor of Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University.

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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press; 1 edition (August 21, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791434745
ISBN-13: 978-0791434741
Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
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6 books cite this book:

Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine by Allen Verhey on page 70, and page 102
The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) by Mark J. Hanson on page 151
From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice by Jodi Halpern in Back Matter
When God's People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics by Maria Cimperman in Back Matter
God and Human Dignity by R. Kendall Soulen on page 104

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