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Intro Bioethics
Intro Bioethics
Intro Bioethics
• Voluntary consent
• Anticipate scientific benefits
• Benefits outweigh risks
• Animal experiments first
• Avoid suffering
• No intentional death or disability
• Protection from harm
• Subject free to stop / withdraw
• Qualified investigators
• Investigator will stop if harm occurs
History of Bioethics
• Feminist critique
– Social structure and power hierarchy
– Concerns of medicalization
– Significance of social relationships
– Multiculturalism and perceived homogeneity
among bioethicists
– Care ethics -- justice reconfigured
– Relational autonomy
How Bioethics Have Evolved (Continued)
• Disability critique
– Vulnerability and dependency as human
conditions
– Meanings of “normal” and a “good” life
– Medical vs social model
– Cure vs social acceptance
– Social contexts affect individual decisions
– Meaning of autonomy challenged
Current Focus in Bioethics