Bioethics in a Plural World: Contemporary Challenges in Medical and Technological Ethics

Ioannis Ladas; Arul Dhas T, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India; Borche Grambozov, Assistant Professor, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University; Alexander Isaak; Brian Butcher; Petros Panagiotopoulos; Konstantinos Kornarakis; Anatolios Doxastakis; Sherin Sujith Varghese; Lydia Kornaraki; Argyro Marinopoulou; Maria Chorianopoulou; Panagiotis Pantazakos; Bobby George; Kul Bhushan Bali; Diamanto Gialleli; Dorothea Tsekoura; Georgios Rizos; Khader Alkhouri; Miltiadis Vantsos; Olinda Timms; Roopa Verghese; Vergis Paul; Subin B George; Sharon Baisil; Shailaja Gada Saxena; Yashashri Shetty; Pooja Ugale; Evangelos Protopapadakis

Synopsis

Bioethics in a Plural World: Contemporary Challenges in Medical and Technological Ethics (ed. Ioannis N. Ladas) offers a wide-ranging, intercultural exploration of contemporary bioethical dilemmas as they unfold within medically and technologically accelerated, yet irreducibly plural, moral worlds. It is worth noting that the volume’s twenty-three chapters deliberately stage a dialogue among religious and theological traditions and secular bioethical frameworks, moving from questions of reproductive genetics, virtue ethics, and the “image of God” to the more unsettled terrain of artificial intelligence, personhood, and digital mortality. The thought naturally leads to the book’s second, equally decisive emphasis: bioethics as lived clinical reality. Here, issues such as research ethics and clinical trials oversight, resource allocation, medical education, mental health and stigma, domestic violence, gender dysphoria in youth, living organ donation, and systemic ethical conflicts in hospital practice (with particular attention to the Indian healthcare context) are examined in concrete, case-sensitive terms. Blending normative argument with contextual awareness, the volume invites scholars, students, clinicians, and policy-oriented readers to rethink autonomy, dignity, justice, and responsibility at the intersection of medicine, technology, and cultural–religious diversity.

Chapters

Editorial

Ioannis Ladas

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Introduction

Evangelos Protopapadakis

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Impact of religious literature on the bioethical decisions

Arul Dhas T

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The presence of God’s image in humankind and its absence in the gift of technology
A theological and ethical approach

Borche Grambozov

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Participatory bioethics
A conversation between Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions on reproductive genetics

Alexander Isaak

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“Sanctify my body and make your abode in me”
Bioethical reflection in light of orthodox virtue ethics

Brian Butcher

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Orthodox Christian bioethics and technoethics
An approach to the contribution of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Ioannis Ladas

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Artificial intelligence as a challenge for Christian Orthodox Ethos

Petros Panagiotopoulos

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Artificial intelligence and the contemporary human being
In search of life’s meaning in an intangible campus?

Konstantinos Kornarakis

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Personhood and artificial intelligence
An Orthodox theological perspective

Anatolios Doxastakis

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Personhood in secular bioethics and orthodox Christian anthropology
A christological foundation for contemporary bioethical decisions

Sherin Sujith Varghese

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Artificial intelligence and the right to die
A virtual eternity

Lydia Kornaraki

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Meet the thanabots
The digital Eusapia - the city of the dead - in the age of artificial intelligence

Argyro Marinopoulou, Maria Chorianopoulou

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Humanism and responsibility in experimental research
Ethics, physics, medicine

Panagiotis Pantazakos

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Bioethics in healthcare

Bobby George

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Bridging the past and future
Reimagining medical education through ancient wisdom, modern science, and the Sri Madhu-sudan Sai Institute Model

Kul Bhushan Bali

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Challenges in review and approving clinical trials by ethics committee

Yashashri Shetty, Pooja Ugale

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Mental health and stigma
An assessment in the educational community

Diamanto Gialleli, Dorothea Tsekoura

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Hormone therapy for gender dysphoria in youth
Bioethical and clinical dimensions of hormone therapy

Georgios Rizos

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Bioethical and psychological perspectives on domestic violence

Khader Alkhouri

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Is the living donor harmed or benefited? A key question for the ethical consideration of organ transplantation

Miltiadis Vantsos

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Bioethical challenges encountered in healthcare settings in India - An overview

Olinda Timms

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Contemporary bioethical practices followed in hospitals
A personal experience

Roopa Verghese

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Systemic ethical conflicts in Indian hospitals
A case-based analysisof autonomy, justice, and legal anxiety

Vergis Paul, Subin B George, Sharon Baisil

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Ethical crossroads in reproductive genetics
Balancing rights, risks, and responsibilities

Shailaja Gada Saxena

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Panel Discussion Summary
Ethical Practices in Healthcare Institutions

Sherin Sujith Varghese

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Acknowledgements

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Co-publisher's ISBN-13 (24)

978-960-466-369-9

doi

10.12681/aprlp.254.176