Currently, the ethics infrastructure - from medical and scientific
training to the scrutiny of ethics committees - focuses on trying
to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not
capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical
tool in public ethics and is particularly problematic in the
governance of genetics. Heather Widdows suggests using alternative
and additional ethical tools and argues that if individuals are to
flourish it is necessary to recognise and respect communal and
public goods as well as individual goods. To do this she suggests a
two-step process - the 'ethical toolbox'. First the harms and goods
of the particular situation are assessed and then appropriate
practices are put in place to protect goods and prevent harms. This
debate speaks to core concerns of contemporary public ethics and
suggests a means to identify and prioritise public and common
goods.
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