BIOETHICS AT THE BOUNDARY

<p>The book is composed of 21 chapters. Each of them has its own integrity and it can be read independently of the others. Thus the reader should not expect a progressive unfolding of the content even if in the end one can identify something like a unified Gestalt. <span style=color: var(--base-text); font-family: Work Sans -apple-system BlinkMacSystemFont Segoe UI Roboto Helvetica Neue Arial sans-serif Apple Color Emoji Segoe UI Emoji Segoe UI Symbol; font-size: 1rem;>Part I Bioethical Openings offers a number of essays dealing with questions of method together with issues currently under scrutiny in the conversation of bioethics scholars; among others cloning human genome editing euthanasia assisted suicide and abortion. </span><span style=color: var(--base-text); font-family: Work Sans -apple-system BlinkMacSystemFont Segoe UI Roboto Helvetica Neue Arial sans-serif Apple Color Emoji Segoe UI Emoji Segoe UI Symbol; font-size: 1rem;>Part II Philosophical Probings takes up topics of a more obvious philosophical nature spanning epistemological anthropological and social-ethical questions. </span><span style=color: var(--base-text); font-family: Work Sans -apple-system BlinkMacSystemFont Segoe UI Roboto Helvetica Neue Arial sans-serif Apple Color Emoji Segoe UI Emoji Segoe UI Symbol; font-size: 1rem;>In Part III Theological Expansions the books opens to a broader vista pushing philosophical mindfulness to the point where it merges with the preoccupations of theology. The work of earlier practitioners of bioethics many of them theologians was precisely of such nature. In fact what made their contributions so substantive might have something to do with their background premises informed by metaphysical confidence and thick anthropological notions rooted in theological categories yet open to public argumentation.</span></p>