Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility
explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting
public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of
biotechnological progress.?
The contributors examine moral and policy controversies
surrounding biomedical technologies and their place in American
society, beginning with an examination of discourse and moral
authority in democracy, and addressing a set of issues that
include: dignity in health care; the social responsibilities of
scientists, journalists, and scholars; and the language of genetics
and moral responsibility.? ?
Much discussion of biotechnological advances rests on the rights
of individuals to make autonomous choices and on societal decisions
not to interfere with willing buyers and sellers. But intensifying
democratic debates about key issues like health insurance reform
and genetic research have begun to broaden our public vision, to
include awareness of cost, a sense of collective responsibility to
help others, and the need to work together to set limits we can
live with. In scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, on
television, radio, and hundreds of web sites, public moral argument
about the benefits and burdens of biotechnology is ubiquitous.
Science and society have thus created an increasingly fragmented
discourse, which we need to examine together. The book's authors,
experts from the sciences and humanities, step beyond their
disciplinary boundaries to assume the ethical responsibility of
translating their expertise into forms that help promote fruitful
public conversation.?
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