PDF-(BOOK)-The History and Future of Bioethics: A Sociological View

It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation Human genetic engineering stem cell research face transplantation synthetic biology all were science fiction only a few decades ago but now are all reality How do we as a society decidewhether these technologies are ethical For decades professional bioethicists have served as mediators between a busy public and its decisionmakers helping people understand their own ethical concerns framing arguments discrediting illogical claims and supporting promising ones Thesebioethicists play an instrumental role in guiding governments ethical policy decisions consulting for hospitals faced with vital decisions and advising institutions that conduct research on humansAlthough the bioethics profession has functioned effectively for many years it is now in crisis Policymakers are less inclined to take the advice of bioethics professionals with many observers saying that bioethics debates have simply become partisan politics with dueling democratic andrepublican bioethicists While this crisis is contained to the task of recommending ethical policy to the government there is risk that it will spread to the other tasks conducted by bioethicistsTo understand how this crisis came about and to arrive at a solution John H Evans closely examines the history of the bioethics profession Bioethics debates were originally dominated by theologians but came to be dominated by the emerging bioethics profession due to the subtle and slowinvolvement of the government as the primary consumer of bioethical arguments After the 1980s however the views of the government changed making bioethical arguments less legitimate Exploring the sociological processes that lead to the evolution of bioethics to where it is today Evans proposesa radical solution to the crisis Bioethicists must give up its inessential functions change the way they make ethical arguments and make conscious and explicit steps toward reestablishing the professions legitimacy as a mediator between the public and government decisionmakers. 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The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts. Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems in bioethics. For pragmatism, ethics is a way of satisfying the complex demands of multiple individuals and groups in a contingent and changing world. Pragmatism also demands careful attention to the ways in which scientific advances change our values and ethics. The essays in this book present different approaches to pragmatism and different ways of applying pragmatism to scientific and medical matters. They use pragmatism to guide thinking about such timely topics as stem cell research, human cloning, genetic testing, human enhancement, and care for the poor and aging. This new edition contains three new chapters, on difficulties with applying pragmatism to law and bioethics, on helping people to die, and on embryonic stem cell research.