Toward Critical Bioethics Studies: Black Feminist Insights for a Field "Reckoning" with Anti-Black Racism
In this essay, I draw on the ethical theory of state consequentialism to advance the argument that understanding the ethics that the United States practices, rather than focusing on what it preaches, offers a more dynamic path for informing and transforming a field seeking to reckon with anti-Black...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Pages: 57-59 |
| Further subjects: | B
Justice
B Antiracism B anti-Black racism B Bioethics B state consequentialism B racial reckoning |
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| Summary: | In this essay, I draw on the ethical theory of state consequentialism to advance the argument that understanding the ethics that the United States practices, rather than focusing on what it preaches, offers a more dynamic path for informing and transforming a field seeking to reckon with anti-Black racism. With a specific focus on justice, I show how state consequentialism provides a potential starting point for understanding how the nation prioritizes its own social, political, and economic interests to the detriment of the very principles that are at the heart of bioethics. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1372 |