Vulnerability: Challenging Bioethics

This book explains and elaborates the new concept of vulnerability in today's bioethics. It argues that vulnerability cannot be fully understood within the framework of individual autonomy that dominates mainstream bioethics today.

Author: Henk Ten Have
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/08/2016
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781138652668

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017

About the Author

Henk ten Have is Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. He studied medicine and philosophy in the Netherlands, and worked as a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Universities of Maastricht and Nijmegen. From 2003 until 2010 he joined UNESCO in Paris as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. His recent publications include the Handbook of Global Bioethics (2014) and Global Bioethics: An Introduction (2016). He is currently working on the Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (2016).