Ideology and Politicization in Public Bioethics

Recently, concern has been raised regarding the politicization of public bioethics. Party politics has increasingly influenced public debate on ethical issues like stem cell research, human cloning, and end-of-life care. These debates have put bioethics “smack in the middle” of the culture wars. The...

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Main Author: McGEE, Summer (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2011
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-84
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Summary:Recently, concern has been raised regarding the politicization of public bioethics. Party politics has increasingly influenced public debate on ethical issues like stem cell research, human cloning, and end-of-life care. These debates have put bioethics “smack in the middle” of the culture wars. These recent events confirm Daniel Callahan’s prescient claim made in 1996 that “bioethical debates are beginning to reflect those culture wars … the larger moral struggles of our society.”
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180110000630