What's the Point of Philosophical Bioethics?

Overview

Journal Health Care Anal

Specialties Health Services
Public Health

Date 2012 Sep 6

PMID 22948441

Citations 3

Authors

Iain Brassington

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Abstract

Many people working in bioethics take pride in the subject's embrace of a wide range of disciplines. This invites questions of what in particular is added by each. In this paper, I focus on the role of philosophy within the field: what, if anything, is its unique contribution to bioethics? I sketch out a claim that philosophy is central to bioethics because of its particular analytic abilities, and defend its place within bioethics from a range of sceptical attacks.

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