Provincializing bioethics

Since the 1980s, anthropologists have criticized a US-centric view of bioethics that presents individual autonomy as universal principle without acknowledging its embeddedness in time and place. A recent turn this critique points out how has gained dominance across world, traveling alongside clinical trials global health interventions. Here, centering competing bioethical vision disrupts division between Global North site ethical conceptualization South recipient diffusion. Indian legal bioethics—concerned with protecting critically ill body intensive care—rejects primacy autonomy, instead empowering courts to override choices patients, families, doctors. This commits own harms, misrepresenting vulnerability problem sociomoral underdevelopment rather than outcome increasing inflows capital, new patterns land acquisition, growing public-private care divide. [bioethics, end life, norms, ethics, medicine, law, care, Delhi, India]