Kierkegaard and Bioethics Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores Kierkegaard’s significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates. A bioethics inspired by Kierkegaard is not focussed primarily on ethical codes, principles, or cases, but on the existential how of our medical situation. The chapters offer theoretical reflections on how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking might contribute to bioethics and apply Kierkegaardian concepts to debates on health and disease...