The Triple Helix: The Soul of Bioethics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: What Good Is Philosophical Bioethics?

   • Lisa Bellantoni

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3. The Wages of Grief

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4. Getting Too Personal?

   • Lisa Bellantoni

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5. Where do Bioethicists Come From?

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6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

   • Lisa Bellantoni

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7. Are We Good Enough?

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8. Engineering Bioethics

   • Lisa Bellantoni

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9. Who Do Bioethicists Think They Are?

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10. A Culture of Living

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11. The Triple Helix: Time, Love, and Memory

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12. Back Matter

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Lisa Bellantoni argues that contemporary bioethics divides into two logically incommensurable positions: a cult of rights, which identifies the worth of human life with our autonomy, and a cult of life, which identifies human worth with the possession of a soul, and thereby, of human dignity.

• argue
• autonomy
• bibliography
• bioethics
• body
• corpus
• culture
• ethics
• living
• love
• memory
• time

• Albright College, USA

  Lisa Bellantoni

LISA BELLANTONI is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Albright College, USA. Her research focuses on bioethics, neuroethics and emerging technologies. Her first book, Moral Progress, examined how societies advance morally. Her current work focuses on the use of technology to make society not only materially but morally better.

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