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Critical care: why there is no global bioethicsH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 11:605-9. 2005..The practice of critical care in the 21st century will be influenced by the tension between bioethical pluralism and counter-assertions on behalf of a global bioethics...
Fair equality of opportunity critically reexamined: the family and the sustainability of health care systemsH Tristram Engelhardt
Jr, Rice University, MS 14, P O Box 1892, Houston, TX, 77251 1892, USA
J Med Philos 37:583-602. 2012..This radical recasting of Rawls, which draws inspiration from Singapore, is undertaken as a heuristic to aid in articulating an approach to health care allocation that can lead past the difficulties of social-democratic policy...
Bioethics critically reconsidered: living after foundationsH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251 1892, USA
Theor Med Bioeth 33:97-105. 2012..All of this invites one critically to reconsider the meaning and force of secular bioethics...
The precautionary principle: a dialectical reconsiderationH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
J Med Philos 29:301-12. 2004..The precautionary principle thus properly understood requires an ethos that should generally support technological innovation, at least in particular areas of biotechnology...
Moral knowledge: some reflections on moral controversies, incompatible moral epistemologies, and the culture warsH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy MS 14, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 10:79-103. 2004..This article locates the bioethics of abortion within the theology of the Church of the first millennium, emphasizing that abortion was prohibited, whether or not one considered the embryo or fetus to be ensouled...
The bioethics of care: widows, monastics, and a Christian presence in health careH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, MS14, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA
Christ Bioeth 11:1-10. 2005..The position taken on these issues will define the character of a Christian bioethics of care...
End-of-life: the traditional Christian viewH Tristram Engelhardt
Rice University, Department of Philosophy MS-14, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA
Lancet 366:1045-9. 2005
Long-term care: the family, post-modernity, and conflicting moral life-worldsH Tristram Engelhardt
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
J Med Philos 32:519-36. 2007..As the disputes show, there is no common understanding of respect and human dignity that will easily lead out of these disputes. The reflections on long-term care in this issue underscore the plurality of moralities defining bioethics...
Beyond the best interests of children: four views of the family and of foundational disagreements regarding pediatric decision makingH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, 6100 South Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA
J Med Philos 35:499-517. 2010..It is in light of these fundamental disagreements that there is a need to evaluate critically the claims and agenda advanced by the Convention on the Rights of the Child...
Confronting moral pluralism in posttraditional Western societies: bioethics critically reassessedH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA
J Med Philos 36:243-60. 2011..However, understanding this is only possible when one understands the history, genesis, and foundations of bioethics and its inability to provide a resolution to postmodern moral pluralism...
Core competencies for health care ethics consultants: in search of professional status in a post-modern worldH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77251 1892, USA
HEC Forum 23:129-45. 2011..It provides a brief history of the emergence of an ethics that is after morality. Against this background, the significance of Core Competencies must be critically reconsidered...
Moral philosophy and theology: why is there so little difference for Roman Catholics?H Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, 6100 South Main St, MS 14, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 9:315-29. 2003..The reduction of Roman Catholic moral theology and bioethics to secular bioethics is explored, as well as the necessity of the unique knowledge possessed by Christians for adequate end-of-life decision-making...
The deChristianization of Christian hospital chaplaincy: some bioethics reflections on professionalization, ecumenization, and secularizationH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, 6100 South Main St, MS14, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 9:139-60. 2003..These changes are exemplar of the profound recasting of the dominant moral culture with wide-ranging implications for bioethics...
Discerning the signs of the times: recognizing the dangers of reckless social justice and advocating with responsibilityH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy MS-14, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 8:49-61. 2002
Conflicting moralities and theologies: the culture wars in bioethics reexaminedH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy MS-14, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 8:3-8. 2002
Bioethics after the EnlightenmentH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy MS-14, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 8:225-35. 2002
What is Christian about Christian bioethics? Metaphysical, epistemological, and moral differencesH Tristram Engelhardt
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Christ Bioeth 11:241-53. 2005
Consensus formation: the creation of an ideologyH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 11:7-16. 2002
Medicine and the biomedical sciences after God: do right-worshipping Christians know more than others about the content of morality?H Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy MS 14, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 8:209-19. 2002
The new genetic technologies: why a theological perspective is necessaryH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Texas, USA
Rev Rom Bioet 1:23-30. 2003..Absent a theological point of orientation, medicine and the genetic technology are left with more power than ever but no clear moral sense of how to use that power...
The ordination of bioethicists as secular moral expertsH Tristram Engelhardt
Philosophy, Rice University, USA
Soc Philos Policy 19:59-82. 2002
Medicine, philosophy, and theology: Christian bioethics reconsideredH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, MS-14, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Christ Bioeth 8:105-17. 2002
Sin and bioethics: why a liturgical anthropology is foundationalH Tristram Engelhardt
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Christ Bioeth 11:221-39. 2005..When humans worship correctly, when they avoid sin and pursue holiness, they participate in restoring created reality...
The bioethics consultant: giving moral advice in the midst of moral controversyH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
HEC Forum 15:362-82. 2003
Informed consent in Texas: theory and practiceMark J Cherry
Department of Philosophy, Saint Edward s University, 3001 S Congress Ave, Box 844, Austin, TX 78704, USA
J Med Philos 29:237-52. 2004..The result is a multi-tier public morality, one affirming individuals as morally authoritative and the other recognizing the decisional standing of families...
The injustice of enforced equal access to transplant operations: rethinking reckless claims of fairnessH Tristram Engelhardt
Philosophy Department at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
J Law Med Ethics 35:256-64. 2007..Assertions of such authority amount to reckless claims of fairness, and for this reason, health care policy must be set within the constraints of limited, constitutional regimes...
Germline engineering: the moral challengesH Tristram Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Am J Med Genet 108:169-75. 2002..Such understandings, though available within religious contexts, are not available to secular bioethics...
