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Ibero-American Bioethics - History and Perspectives (Hardcover, 2009)
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Ibero-American Bioethics - History and Perspectives (Hardcover, 2009)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 106
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This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on
preserving the character of the development of bioethics in
particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo
Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas
Stepke's work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts
by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the
Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the
history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply
in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task.
Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical
developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the
secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western
Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation
of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able
to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a
post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as
isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially
took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional,
post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to
establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice
able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti-
tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical
reflections.
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