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The Logic and Legitimacy of American Bioethics (Hardcover, New)
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The Logic and Legitimacy of American Bioethics (Hardcover, New)
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As a relatively new field in academia and growing presence in
American (as well as international) discourse, bioethics must
balance the aspiration to guide biomedical research and practice
with the need to become an institutionally legitimate influence in
society. Since its inception three decades ago, to what extent has
bioethics succeeded at making biomedicine more socially
accountable? At the same time, to what extent has bioethics been
rendered a public-relations tool for academic and corporate
biomedical enterprises, which have become increasingly
intermingled, high-tech, competitive, resource intensive, and
profit-oriented? This book examines bioethicists' efforts to
legitimate and stabilize the institutional existence of their
field, revealing how their competition and collaboration with other
professional groups has staked out an emblematic expertise, which
is then tendered to various societal clients. In a case study of an
academic bioethics center, higher education and science studies
scholar Mary Leinhos reveals how efforts to secure material
resources and organizational legitimacy shape the center's
intellectual output, drawing on extensive interviews with center
personnel and original on-site research. The author also employs
discourse analysis to explore what the anticipated legal liability
of bioethicists and ethics committees reveals about the social
shaping and legitimacy of nascent expertise claims. In the national
science policy arena, this book examines the National Bioethics
Advisory Commission's discourse on the human stem cell research
debate to reveal the boundary work conducted by the commission at
the borders between science and ethics, and between ethics and
public policy. Written by Dr. Mary Leinhos, this groundbreaking
book shifts attention in the sociology of bioethics from clinical
to academic bioethics, and highlights the institutional and
resource-seeking relationships among bioethics, biomedicine, and
public policy. The Logic and Legitimacy of American Bioethics makes
new contributions to the fields of higher education studies and
science studies, where ethics, and the relationship between
legitimacy and expertise, have been little explored. Painting a
detailed picture of how bioethics is taking root in the landscape
of American institutional power and expertise, this book offers
critical insight into the challenges and opportunities bioethicists
face in cultivating socially responsible biomedical science and
technology.
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