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The Politics of Communities A Review of H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.'s The Foundations of Bioethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Christine Overall
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Abstract

This review essay examines H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s The Foundations of Bioethics, a contemporary nonfeminist text in mainstream biomedical ethics. it fo-cuses upon a central concept, Engelhardt's idea of the moral community and argues that the most serious problem in the book is its failure to take account of the political and social structures of moral communities, structures which deeply affect issues in biomedical ethics.

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Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 4 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Medicine , Summer 1989 , pp. 179 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by Hypatia, Inc.

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Engelhardt, H. Tristram Jr. 1986. The foundation of bioethics. New York: Oxford.Google Scholar
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