期刊全称 | Bioethics Critically Reconsidered | 期刊简称 | Having Second Though | 影响因子2023 | H. Tristram Engelhardt | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Focuses on the role of social/political ideology in the development of bioethics.Has as its focus a retrospective on the ideological foundations of bioethics as a discipline.Offers a variety of perspe | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics. In the context of this moral vacuum, bioethics came into existence. Its raison d’être was opposition to the alleged paternalism of the medical community and traditional moral frameworks, yet at the same time it set itself up as a source of moral authority with respect to biomedical decision making. Bioethics serves as biopolitics in so far as it attempts to make determinations about how individuals ought to make medical decisions and then attempts to codify that in law. Progressivism and secularism are ultimately the ideology of bioethics.. | Pindex | Book 2012 |
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