Strategic Ambiguity: The Pragmatic Utopianism of Daniel Callahan’s "Bioethics as a Discipline"

This article highlights the continuing relevance of a classic bioethical text, "Bioethics as a Discipline," published by the Hastings Center’s cofounder Daniel Callahan in 1973. Connecting the text’s programmatic recommendations with later reflections and interventions Callahan wrote about...

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Main Author: Schütz, Mathias ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-173
Further subjects:B history of bioethics
B Daniel Callahan
B Interdisciplinarity
B Hastings Center
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Summary:This article highlights the continuing relevance of a classic bioethical text, "Bioethics as a Discipline," published by the Hastings Center’s cofounder Daniel Callahan in 1973. Connecting the text’s programmatic recommendations with later reflections and interventions Callahan wrote about the development of bioethics illuminates how the vision Callahan established and the reality this vision helped create were interrelated—just not in the way Callahan had hoped for. Although this portrait relies on an individual perception of the development of bioethics, it might nevertheless, through its unique linkage of different bioethical temporalities, contribute to a broader reassessment of what bioethics became and why.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180123000440