Insistent Life Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition
Jainism, perhaps more so than any other South Asian tradition, focuses strongly on the ethics of birth, life, and death, with regard to both humans and other living beings. Insistent Life is the first full-length interdisciplinary examination of the foundational principles of bioethics within Jain d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
University of California Press
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009670636306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Language and Transliteration
- Part one. Foundational Principles
- 1 Why Jainism and Bioethics?
- 2 Life, Nonlife, and Karma
- 3 Nonviolence and the Framework of Jain Ethics
- 4 Jainism’s Evolving View of Medicine
- Part two. Principles of Application
- 5 Potentials of (Re)Birth
- 6 Wages of Life
- 7 Calculations of Death
- Epilogue: Multiple Voices and Future Directions in Jain Bioethics
- Notes
- References
- Index
