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The Future of Bioethics (Hardcover)
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Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success,
but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by
the case of Terri Schiavo. In The Future of Bioethics, Howard
Brody, a physician and scholar who dates his entry into the field
in 1972, sifts through the various issues that bioethics is now
addressing--and some that it is largely ignoring--to chart a course
for the future. Traditional bioethical concerns such as medical
care at the end of life and research on human subjects will
continue to demand attention. Brody chooses to focus instead on
less obvious issues that will promise to stimulate new ways of
thinking. He argues for a bioethics grounded in interdisciplinary
medical humanities, including literature, history, religion, and
the social sciences.
Drawing on his previous work, Brody argues that most of the issues
concerned involve power disparities. Bioethics' response ought to
combine new concepts that take power relationships seriously, with
new practical activities that give those now lacking power a
greater voice. A chapter on community dialogue outlines a role for
the general public in bioethics deliberations. Lessons about power
initially learned from feminist bioethics need to be expanded into
new areas--cross cultural, racial and ethnic, and global and
environmental issues, as well as the concerns of persons with
disabilities. Bioethics has neglected important ethical
controversies that are most often discussed in primary care, such
as patient-centered care, evidence-based medicine, and
pay-for-performance.
Brody concludes by considering the tension between bioethics as
contemplative scholarship and bioethics as activism. He urges a
more activist approach, insisting that activism need not cause a
premature end to ongoing conversations among bioethicists defending
widely divergent views and thcories.
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