Beneficence or Bucks: Focus on Bioethics

Global bioethics – myth or reality?

BACKGROUND There has been debate on whether a global or unified field of bioethics exists. If bioethics is a unified global field, or at the very least a closely shared way of thinking, then we should expect bioethicists to behave the same way in their academic activities anywhere in the world. This paper investigates whether there is a 'global bioethics' in the sense of a unified academic comm...

Justice or Beneficence: What Regulatory Virtue for Nano-Governance?

With nanotechnology we are not only moving into a new technological world but into 'a new legal, ethical, economic, social, cultural and political one too'. The article examines the questions of value preference in this transition to the new technological world and proposes to employ the moral concept of beneficence as a regulatory virtue for the governance of nanotechnology. Setting up the con...

Western bioethics on the Navajo reservation. Benefit or harm?

OBJECTIVE To understand the Navajo perspective regarding the discussion of negative information and to consider the limitations of dominant Western bioethical perspectives. DESIGN Focused ethnography. SETTING Navajo Indian reservation in northeast Arizona. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four Navajo informants, including patients, biomedical health care providers, and traditional healers. RESULTS I...

Attorneys on bioethics committees: unwelcome menace or valuable asset?

Bits, Bangs, or Bucks? The Coming Information Crisis

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