Abortion: thinking and experiencing.
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Publications and source records attributed to Daniel Callahan.
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To gain a better way of thinking about medical technology and our human mortality, we should begin backward. Death should be seen as the necessary and inevitable end point of medical care.... We as a society remain uncertain about the status of patients who manage to combine, in a bewildering way, elements of both life and death.
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The social and medical ethos within which bioethics emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s was constituted in part by religious questions and religious thinkers. However, this identifiably religious influence on bioethics subsequently seemed to decline. How has this diminished impact come about, and what significance, if any, does it hold for the ways we now do bioethics? What difference, finally, do religious perspectives make for bioethics? These were the overarching questions that led the Hastings Center to initiate a research project on the relation of Religion and Bioethics, culminating in this special supplement to the Hastings Center Report.
Daniel Callahan, in an autobiographical reflection, describes how the unfolding secularization of bioethics has culminated in a speculative and linguistic narrowness. The pluralism we celebrate as a moral achievement may become oppressive if it is not open to the insights of particular traditions and communities.
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