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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Auteur principal: Overstreet, Nicole M. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2022
Dans: The Hastings Center report
Année: 2022, Volume: 52, Pages: 57-59
Sujets non-standardisés:B Justice
B Antiracism
B anti-Black racism
B Bioethics
B state consequentialism
B racial reckoning
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contient:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1372