Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics

Palgrave Macmillan’s Content and Context in Theological Ethics Content and Context in Theological Ethics offers ethics done from theological and religious perspectives rooted in the particular contexts and lived experience of real people in history, in the present, and looking with hope toward the future. The series raises the contexts or cultures out of which an increasing number of scholars do their thinking and research regarding the influence of those contexts on the content of ethics and how that content has been applied historically, traditionally, and/or subversively by members of the context or community or culture under scrutiny, or raised as paradigmatic or as a novel or passing fad. The series explores normative claims about right and wrong, human flourishing or failing, virtues and vices—the fundamental bases and questions of ethics—within the context, culture, or community identified and in correlation with norms inherited from or imposed by colonizing/dominant forces or ideologies while recognizing new voices and/or new understandings of theologically and/or religiously inspired concerns in response to knowledge uncovered by other disciplines that impact ethical reflection on the content explored. Series Editor MARY JO IOZZIO, Professor of Moral Theology at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, is active in the American Academy of Religion (Committee on the Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession and Religion and Disability Group), Catholic Theological Ethicists in the World Church (capo and contributor, North American Forum), Catholic Theological Society of America (Board of Directors), and the Society of Christian Ethics (past co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2006–2013 and Board of Directors, 2003–2006). She serves the American Board of Plastic Surgery (Board of Directors) and Bon Secours Health System Inc (Ethics Advisory Group). Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections Edited by Anna Kasafi Perkins, Donald Chambers, and Jacqueline Porter Theology in the Age of Global AIDS and HIV: Complicity and Possibility By Cassie J. E. H. Trentaz Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic: Anti-Racism, Action, and Justice By Tammerie Day Religious Ethics in a Time of Globalism: Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Analysis Edited by Elizabeth M. Bucar and Aaron Stalnaker The Scandal of White Complicity and US Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance By Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, and Margaret Pfeil, with a foreword written by S. Helen Prejean, CSJ Spirituality in Dark Places: The Ethics of Solitary Confinement By Derek S. Jeffreys Narratives and Jewish Bioethics By Jonathan K. Crane The African American Challenge to Just War Theory: A Christian Ethics Approach By Ryan P. Cumming Toward A Theology of Migration: Social Justice and Religious Experience By Gemma Tulud Cruz Feminist Cyberethics in Asia: Religious Discourses on Human Connectivity Edited by Agnes M. Brazal and Kochurani Abraham The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi’s Unique Moral Vision By Jung H. Lee Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics By Ashley John Moyse R e a di ng K a r l Ba rt h, I n t e r ru p t i ng Mor a l Tec h n iqu e , Tr a nsfor m i ng Biom e dic a l Et h ic s Ashley John Moyse READING KARL BARTH, INTERRUPTING MORAL TECHNIQUE, TRANSFORMING BIOMEDICAL ETHICS Copyright © Ashley John Moyse 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-53690-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of a