THE CONCEPT OF MORAL CONSENSUS by Kurt Bayertz (Editor), H. Tristram Engelhardt ( 9780792326151 )

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Title:

THE CONCEPT OF MORAL CONSENSUS
THE CASE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN HUMAN REPRODUCTION

By:

Kurt Bayertz (Editor), H. Tristram Engelhardt

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0792326156

ISBN 13:

9780792326151

Publisher:

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

11 May, 1994

Series:

Philosophy and Medicine v. 46

Pages:

253

Description:

Focusing on the concept of consensus, this text reflects on the difficulties and complexity of moral decision-making, offers views on the problem of why decision-making does not take place more harmoniously and asks if there can be any hope of a solution.

Synopsis:

Books do not come about by accident. This is especially the case when a volume grows out of a conference for which the participants wrote the original contributions in different languages. This volume descends from a conference held at the Zentrumjiir interdiszipliniire Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany, October 4 through 6, 1990, under the title "Technische Eingriffe in die menschliche Reproduktion: Per- spektiven eines moralischen Konsenses". Many with great generosity helped to ensure that the conference was a success and that the papers presented grew into a book. We want in particular to acknowledge our deep gratitude to the Zentrumjiir interdiszipliniire Forschung for spon- soring this important conference, and to its director, Peter Weingart, for his important guidance and support. Our thanks are also due to all of the staff ofthe Zentrum. It is they who made the conference successful. We are also grateful to Prof. Hilmar Stolte, head of the Institut jiir System- und Technologieanalysen in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, for making available additional financial support for the conference.Our thanks are also owed to the participants who inspired us to transform a collection of papers into a completed volume. The general trans- formation of the original papers required translation. Here we must acknowledge the labors of Sarah L. Kirkby, who rendered many parts of the volume into English. Finally, we want to recognize the invaluable support given by the ecumenical teamwork of Kurt W.

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