The Moral Demands of Memory

Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory.

List of contents

1. Memory as a subject of evaluative inquiry; 2. Taking responsibility for one's own past; 3. Doing justice to the past; 4. Ethics, truth, and collective memory; 5. The responsibility of remembrance; 6. Memory and bearing witness.

About the author

Jeffrey Blustein is Professor of Bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College. He is the author of Parents and Children: The Ethics of the Family; Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of View; and most recently, Ethics for Health Care Organizations and Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees (both with Linda Farber Post and Nancy Dubler). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Metaphilosophy, Dialogue, the Journal of Social Philosophy, the Journal of Value Inquiry and Bioethics.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Blustein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 228 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works