Title: Chapter 1 Ethical Theory and Moral Intuitions in Biomedical Decision-Making
Abstract: One of the most important problems of contemporary life is how to bring ethics to bear on the development and applications of technology. This problem is nowhere more acute than in the biomedical sphere. The ethical guidance of biomedical research and medical practice depends on adequately clear sound ethical standards, but it also depends on the internalization of these standards in both research and therapeutic practice. This paper focuses on the problem of determining adequate ethical standards and proposes a wide-ranging pluralistic theory for approaching moral questions. It does this in broad outline, but also with an eye to the applicability of ethical standards to concrete biomedical decisions, including clinical decisions and determination of research programs, especially those involving genetic engineering and fetal tissue use.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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