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  1. What are the Limits of Bioethics in a Culturally Pluralistic Society?Kerry Bowman - 2004 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (4):664-669.
    Modern bioethics, which is based on Western moral philosophy and Western biomedical perspectives, has evolved within a complex, highly individualistic culture that draws a sharp distinction between church and state and tolerates a multitude of values. This discipline defines its principles in secular and objective terms that often are bewildering to people of non-Western origin. Despite much discourse, principlism remains the fundamental framework of bioethics. Principlism is held in such high regard that many bioethicists equate autonomy with personhood, as if (...)
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