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Beyond Cultural Myopia: the Challenge of the Bioethical Imagination

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Author	Marques, Tatiana Santos
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The consolidation of the interdisciplinary field of bioethics in Europe and in the United States was accompanied by harsh criticisms by the social sciences; criticisms that have endured and been reshaped from the late twentieth century until the present. This article begins with a critical discussion of the myopia detected in a bioethical thought that has systematically disregarded its origins, both cultural (traditions) and social (beliefs, values and norms). I claim that this deficit could be rectified if social scientists, in general, and sociologists, in particular, were to move away from the periphery, which they still occupy today, and take up a central position in the area of bioethics. In order to analyze the distant and controversial relationship between the social sciences and bioethics, I proceed to an analysis of their various approaches, respectively guided by descriptive and normative ethics. The specific intersection of sociologists with bioethical thought will be scrutinized, in accordance with an analytical continuum that illustrates an evolution from a collaborative position (sociology in bioethics) to a free and independent position (sociology of bioethics) adopted by the social scientists. The article concludes by presenting a suggestion regarding the integration of the sociological imagination in the processes of ethical deliberation on the moral problems that emerge in biomedical research and clinical practice. In this context, further epistemological reflection is invited regarding the influence of socio-cultural sources of morality relating to the manner in which such problems have been challenged by the bioethical imagination.
Starting Page	189
Ending Page	203
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	11221151
Journal	Axiomathes
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728390
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-10-08
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Bioethics Medical ethics Social sciences Sociological imagination Sociology of bioethics Philosophy Ontology Linguistics Cognitive Psychology Logic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Mathematics

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