Twine, Richard (2005) Constructing a Critical Bioethics by Deconstructing Culture/Nature Dualism. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 8 (3). pp. 285-295. ISSN 1386-7423
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This paper seeks to respond to some of the recent criticisms directed toward bioethics by offering a contribution to critical bioethics. Here this concept is principally defined in terms of the three features of interdisciplinarity, self-reflexivity and the avoidance of uncritical complicity. In a partial reclamation of the ideas of V.R. Potter it is argued that a critical bioethics requires a meaningful challenge to culture/nature dualism, expressed in bioethics as the distinction between medical ethics and ecological ethics. Such a contesting of the bio in bioethics arrests its ethical bracketing of environmental and animal ethics. Taken together, the triadic definition of a critical bioethics offered here provides a potential framework with which to fend off critiques of commercial capture or of being too close to science commonly directed toward bioethics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy |
| Additional Information: | “The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com”. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BIOETHICS ; CRITICAL BIOETHICS ; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS ; INTERDISCIPLINARITY ; ISSUES IN BIOETHICS ; SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES. |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Politics & International Relations (Merged into PPR 2010-08-01) Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology |
| ID Code: | 117 |
| Deposited By: | Dr Richard Twine |
| Deposited On: | 03 Feb 2006 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:01 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/117 |
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