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EBOOK History and Future of Bioethics:A Sociological View

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199860869
EAN: 942986E1EB
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Stron: 256
Data wydania: 2011
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It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a        scientific innovation. Human genetic engineering, stem cell research, face        transplantation, synthetic biology - all were science fiction only a few decades        ago, but now are all reality. How do we as a society decide whether these        technologies are ethical? For decades professional bioethicists have served as        mediators between a busy public and its decision-makers, helping people understand        their own ethical concerns, framing arguments, discrediting illogical claims, and        supporting promising ones. These bioethicists play an instrumental role in guiding        governments' ethical policy decisions, consulting for hospitals faced with vital        decisions, and advising institutions that conduct research on humans.Although the        bioethics profession has functioned effectively for many years, it is now in crisis.          Policy-makers are less inclined to take the advice of bioethics professionals, with        many observers saying that bioethics debates have simply become partisan politics        with dueling democratic and republican bioethicists. While this crisis is contained        to the task of recommending ethical policy to the government, there is risk that it        will spread to the other tasks conducted by bioethicists.To understand how this        crisis came about and to arrive at a solution, John H. Evans closely examines the        history of the bioethics profession. Bioethics debates were originally dominated by        theologians, but came to be dominated by the emerging bioethics profession due to        the subtle and slow involvement of the government as the primary consumer of        bioethical arguments. After the 1980s, however, the views of the government changed,        making bioethical arguments less legitimate. Exploring the sociological processes        that lead to the evolution of bioethics to where it is today, Evans proposes a        radical solution to the crisis. Bioethicists must give up its inessential functions,        change the way they make ethical arguments, and make conscious and explicit steps        toward re-establishing the profession's legitimacy as a mediator between the public        and government decision-makers."e;John Evans provides a trenchant reconstruction of        the waxing and waning influence of theology on the bioethics canon, as well as an        original proposal for a social science-based bioethics. This book will fascinate and        instruct anyone interested in where we have been and where we should go in our        societal conversation about deep human values."e;- Jonathan Moreno, University of        Pennsylvania

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