Bioethics in a Plural World

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.