The Contingent Nature of Life

Contingency of Life and the Ethical.- The Value of Natural Contingency.- Between Natural Necessity and Ethical Contingency.- Of Poststructuralist Ethics and Nomadic Subjects.- Genetics, a Practical Anthropology.- Science, Religion, and Contingency.- Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences.- Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood.- Human Cognitive Vulnerability and the Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus.- Needs and the Metaphysics of Rights.- The Authority of Desire in Medicine.- Procreative Needs and Rights.- Needs, Capacities and Morality.- Moral Judgement and Moral Reasoning.- Philosophical Reflection on Bioethics and Limits.- Cases of Limits.- Finite Lives and Unlimited Medical Aspirations.- Reproductive Choice: Whose Rights? Whose Freedom?.- Assisted Reproduction and the Changing of the Human Body.- On the Limits of Liberal Bioethics.- The Human Embryo as Clinical Tool.- The Naked Emperor.- Abilities and Disabilities.- Disability: Suffering, Social Oppression, or Complex Predicament?.- Disability and Moral Philosophy: Difference Should Count.- Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability.- Others’ Views: Intercultural Perspectives.- Normative Relations: East Asian on Biomedicine and Bioethics.- Limits of Human Existence According to China’s Bioethics.- There is the World, and there is the Map of the World.- Reflections on Human Dignity and the Israeli Cloning Debate.- Conceiving of Human Life.- Globalization and the Dynamic Role of Human Rights in Relation to a Common Perspective for Life Sciences.