Fundamental Aspects -- HISTORY AND FUTURE OF BIOETHICS -- THE NEED FOR ETHICAL EVALUATION IN BIOMEDICINE AND BIOPOLITICS -- FINITUDE – A NEGLECTED PERSPECTIVE IN BIOETHICS -- LIMITS OF BIOETHICS -- THE PROBLEM OF LIMITS OF LAW IN BIOETHICAL ISSUES -- Classical Approaches -- ONE MORAL PRINCIPLE OR MANY! -- DANGER AND MERITS OF PRINCIPLISM Meta-theoretical Reflections on the Beauchamp/Childress- Approach to Biomedical Ethics -- THE JOURNEY FROM ETHICS TO LAW The Case of Euthanasia -- RECOGNITION AND RESPECT FOR PERSONS A Personalistic Interpretation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative -- RATIONALITY IN BIOETHICS Reasonable Adjudication in a Life and Death Case of the Separation of Conjoined Twins1 -- Culture and Society -- THE PUBLIC ROLE OF BIOETHICS AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC -- EXPERTS ON BIOETHICS IN BIOPOLITICS -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL HISTORY TO MEDICAL ETHICS The Case of Brain Death -- ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE A Dispute on Truth, Power or Money? -- DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDICAL ETHICS -- Body and Identity -- BODY, PERCEPTION AND IDENTITY -- DISABLED EMBODIMENT AND AN ETHIC OF CARE -- COPING WITH LIMITS Two Strategies and their Anthropological and Ethical Implications -- Innovative Modes of Analysis -- WHAT CAN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CONTRIBUTE TO THE STUDY OF ETHICS? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations1 -- DISCOURSE ETHICS Apel, Habermas, and Beyond -- THE CONCEPT OF CARE ETHICS IN BIOMEDICINE The Case of Disability -- THE THICK SOCIAL MATRIX FOR BIOETHICS Anthropological Approaches -- NARRATIVE BIOETHICS1.