Teaching bioethics in the new millennium: holding theories accountable to actual practices and real people.

Full Abstract

Teaching bioethics in the new millennium requires its practitioners to confront a wide area of methodological alternatives. This essay chronicles the author's journey from the principlism of Beauchamp and Childress, through narrative and postmodern bioethics, to a complex feminist critique of postmodern bioethics that emphasizes functional human capabilities and the creation of structures that can facilitate free discussion of those capabilities and how best to realize them. Teaching bioethics concerns not only the acknowledgement of differences but also reminding ourselves of our samenesses. Sustained Habermasian democratic conversations might help us to escape the narrow confines of a postmodern bioethics of moral strangers for a richer world of moral friends.

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Author information

Author/s: Tong, Rosemarie (R);

Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA. rotong(-atsign-)email.uncc.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: The Journal of medicine and philosophy (J Med Philos), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Aug; vol 27 (issue 4) : pp 417-32

Dates: Created 2002/09/10; Completed 2002/10/09; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12221502, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: J Med Philos. 2002 Aug;27(4):433-45. (PMID: 12221503)

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Bioethics
Feminism
Humans

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