Gerald P Mckenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 1693472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald P Mckenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenny |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENNY G P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Altering Nature
Technologies of Desire
There are several different levels on which technology poses theological and ethical problems. At the first level, technology consists of devices and techniques. At the second level, technology involves the transformations that it effects in various areas of our lives. At the third level, technology expresses an entire kind of action or a basic attitude human beings take to the world and to themselves. Theologians typically address technology at …
To relieve the human condition
This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse…
Buddhism and Bioethics. Damien Keown
Joseph Butler's Moral and Religious Thought
Bultmann
Values interpretation
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Values interpretation
Bultmann
Joseph Butler's Moral and Religious Thought
To relieve the human condition
This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse…
Buddhism and Bioethics. Damien Keown
Technologies of Desire
There are several different levels on which technology poses theological and ethical problems. At the first level, technology consists of devices and techniques. At the second level, technology involves the transformations that it effects in various areas of our lives. At the third level, technology expresses an entire kind of action or a basic attitude human beings take to the world and to themselves. Theologians typically address technology at …
Altering Nature
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