Getting from the Ethical to the Empirical and Back Again: The Danger of Getting it Wrong, and the Possibilities for Getting it Right

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Smajdor, Anna Ives, Jonathan Baldock, Emma Langlois, Adèle
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	‘Bioethics: past, present and future’ was a conference whose purpose was to create a snapshot of postgraduate work in bioethics. This work, it was hoped, would be illustrative of the new generation of academics working in the field, and of their attitudes towards their discipline. The conference attracted postgraduates from diverse areas and backgrounds, unified by their shared work in bioethics. Given such a disparate group one might have thought there would be a great deal of disagreement about what bioethics is and what counts as ‘doing bioethics’, yet this was not the case. There were variations of interpretation as to what constitutes bioethics, but the points on which there was agreement were far more striking. Throughout the 2 days of the conference, during formal presentations and informal
Starting Page	7
Ending Page	16
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1007/s10728-007-0079-z
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://annasmajdor.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/empirical_bioethics.pdf
PubMed reference number	18080770
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-007-0079-z
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	16
Journal	Health Care Analysis
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article