What Is Bioethics: Notes toward a New Approach?
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Floris J. W. Tomasini
The question what is bioethics is a controversial area of debate amongst practitioners of bioethics, not least because it sets out disciplinary boundaries to practise the subject, which involve deeper assumptions about how one should approach and practise the subject. There are at least four ways of answering the question “what is bioethics?” that raise the controversy aforementioned. These can be identified in the following ways: (1) what has the word bioethics come to mean? What limits of scope should we place on an answer to what is bioethics?; (2) what discipline does bioethics involve? Does it involve a single disciplinary perspective or does it involve many disciplines?; (3) are there different cultural principles or values to be contested in bioethics?; and (4) conclusions - what methodological approach should we adopt in answering the question what is bioethics?
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Articles in the same Issue
- Article
- The Ethical Significance of Expectations and the Case of Microsoft Office Accounting
- Germ-line Enhancements, Inequalities and the (In)egalitarian Ethos
- For Me to Know and You to Find Out? Participatory Mechanisms, The Aarhus Convention and New Technologies
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- Review of Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology
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- What Is Bioethics: Notes toward a New Approach?
- Sketching Further: A Comment on Tomasini's "What Is Bioethics: Notes toward a New Approach?"
