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What Do You Think of Philosophical Bioethics?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (2):139-148 (2015)

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What Is Wrong with Global Bioethics? On the Limitations of the Four Principles Approach.Tuija Takala - 2001 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 (1):72-77.details Within the latter half of the 30-year history of bioethics there has been an increasing pressure to address bioethical issues globally. Bioethics is not traditionally a theory-based enterprise, rather the focus has been problem related. With the introduction of the global perspective, theory has, however, become more important. One of the best known, probably the best known, theory of bioethics is the one presented by Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress in their PrinciplesofBiomedicalEthics in 1979. This theory is known (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 23 citations
A Defense of Ethical Relativism.Matti Häyry - 2005 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (1):7-12.details Relativism is usually a derogatory word in philosophical bioethics in the West. If people make the mistake of trying to understand radically “different” points of view, an accusation of relativism is quickly forthcoming. But why should this be an accusation? My aim in this paper is to demonstrate that it should not. Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
Rationality and the Genetic Challenge Revisited.Matti Häyry - 2011 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (3):468-483.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Cloning.Ruth F. Chadwick - 1982 - Philosophy 57 (220):201-209.details Every body cell of an animal or human being contains the same complete set of genes. In theory any of these cells can be used to start a new embryo. The technique has been employed in the case of frogs. The nucleus is taken out of a body cell of a frog and implanted in an enucleated frog's egg. The resulting egg cell is stimulated to develop into a normal frog, and will be an exact copy of that frog which (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Demagogues, Firefighters, and Window Dressers: Who Are We and What Should We Be?Tuija Takala - 2005 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (4):385-388.details The growing interest in bioethics has given rise to a new group of experts: experts in bioethics. They come from different walks of life and their motives, claims, and qualifications for expertise are manifold. Various academic disciplines can be said to contribute to one's status as an expert in bioethics. Studies and research in, say, philosophy, law, anthropology, history, theology, and sociology with an emphasis on bioethical matters are often thought of as suitably qualifying a person as a bioethicist. In (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations

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