Toward Public Bioethics?

Public Reason and Bioethics

1. Rawls puts forward a proposal of political philosophy suitable for a pluralistic society where members try to establish and make persistent a stable social cooperation. The proposal is very sophisticated and takes into consideration numerous elements of a complex society. First of all, it is worth pointing out that the model of society proposed by Rawls is a liberal society, based on the ide...

Bioethics and Public Policy’

Editorial : Bioethics dialogue in public -

The "four principles" of bioethics lack any reference to medicine as a special domain of human practice. It is argued that seeing medicine as one profession among many others goes against our very expectations from medicine. Clinical medicine is defined as the realm of practice that leads people along verges of bodily and existential catastrophe in ways that accommodate personal autonomy and pe...

Bioethics - Public Health - Oxford Bibliographies

Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public health measures have also increased human suffering through policies of forced sterilization, mandatory screening of vulnerable populations, detention of people with infectious diseases, and the quarantine and social isolation of “sick” people or communities. Until recently, the va...

Religion and bioethics: toward an expanded understanding.

Before asking what U.S. bioethics might learn from a more comprehensive and more nuanced understanding of Islamic religion, history, and culture, a prior question is, how should bioethics think about religion? Two sets of commonly held assumptions impede further progress and insight. The first involves what "religion" means and how one should study it. The second is a prominent philosophical vi...