| Constructing critical bioethics by deconstructing culture/nature dualism. | |
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PMID: 16283491 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper seeks to respond to some of the recent criticisms directed toward bioethics by offering a contribution to a "critical bioethics". Here this concept is principally defined in terms of the three features of interdisciplinarity, self-reflexivity and the avoidance of uncritical complicity. In a partial reclamation of the ideas of V.R. Potter, it is argued that a critical bioethics requires a meaningful challenge to culture/nature dualism, expressed in bioethics as the distinction between medical ethics and ecological ethics. Such a contesting of the "bio" in bioethics arrests its ethical bracketing of environmental and animal ethics. Taken together, the triadic definition of a critical bioethics offered here provides a potential framework with which to fend off critiques of commercial capture or of being "too close to science" commonly directed toward bioethics. |
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Authors:
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Richard Twine |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Medicine, health care, and philosophy Volume: 8 ISSN: 1386-7423 ISO Abbreviation: Med Health Care Philos Publication Date: 2005 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2005-11-11 Completed Date: 2006-01-10 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9815900 Medline TA: Med Health Care Philos Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 285-95 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy IEPPP & ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics CESA Gen, Lancaster University, UK. r.twine@lancaster.ac.uk |
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Animals Bioethics* Cultural Diversity* Humans |
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