LOOKING BACKWARDS, LOOKING FORWARD: HOPES FOR BIOETHICS' NEXT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Bioethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 75-82 |
Further subjects: | B
Social Justice
B Past B Bioethics B Future B social connection model B Responsibility B embedded |
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Summary: | I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways of re-orienting our theoretic tools to guide us in a new direction: (1) adopt an ethics of responsibility; (2) explore the responsibilities of various kinds of actors and relationships among them; (3) expand the types of participants engaged in bioethics. |
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ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01866.x |