| Inter-ethics: towards an interactive and interdependent bioethics. | |
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PMID: 20500761 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Since its origin bioethics has been a specialized, academic discipline, focussing on moral issues, using a vast set of globalized principles and rational techniques to evaluate and guide healthcare practices. With the emergence of a plural society, the loss of faith in experts and authorities and the decline of overarching grand narratives and shared moralities, a new approach to bioethics is needed. This approach implies a shift from an external critique of practices towards embedded ethics and interactive practice improvement, and from a legal defence of rights towards fostering interdependent practices of responsibility. This article describes these transitions within bioethics in relation to the broader societal and cultural dynamics within Western societies, and traces the implications for the methodologies and changing roles of the bioethicist. The bioethicist we foresee is not just a clever expert but also a relationally sensitive person who engages stakeholders in reciprocal dialogues about their practice of responsibility and helps to integrate various sorts of knowledge (embodied, experiential, visual, and cognitive-scientific). In order to illustrate this new approach, we present a case study. It concerns a project focusing on an innovation in elderly care, based on the participation of various stakeholders, especially older people themselves. |
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Tineke A Abma; Vivianne E Baur; Bert Molewijk; Guy A M Widdershoven |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Bioethics Volume: 24 ISSN: 1467-8519 ISO Abbreviation: Bioethics Publication Date: 2010 Jun |
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Created Date: 2010-05-26 Completed Date: 2010-09-23 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8704792 Medline TA: Bioethics Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 242-55 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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Department of Medical Humanities and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. t.abma@vumc.nl |
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Bioethical Issues Bioethics / trends* Cultural Diversity Diffusion of Innovation* Dissent and Disputes Ethical Relativism* Ethical Theory* Ethicists Forecasting Humans Interdisciplinary Communication Internationality Moral Obligations Patient Participation Philosophy Principle-Based Ethics Professional Role Social Change* Western World |
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