Glocalization of bioethics
There appears to be a conflict between global bioethical principles and the local understanding and application of these principles, but this conflict has misleadingly been characterized through the east–west dichotomy. This dichotomy portrays bioethical principles as western and as alien to non-wes...
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2022-12-01
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| description | There appears to be a conflict between global bioethical principles and the local understanding and application of these principles, but this conflict has misleadingly been characterized through the east–west dichotomy. This dichotomy portrays bioethical principles as western and as alien to non-western cultures. In this paper, I present reasons to reject the east–west dichotomy. Using the discussion around the principle of informed consent as an example, I propose that while bioethical values are common, bioethical governance must display a certain flexibility akin to Aristotle’s metaphor about the Lesbian rule. Such flexibility combined with a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of bioethical subjects might lead to the purging of tensions between global and local, giving us Glocal Bioethics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5fb937abfe9a41be96685566486363762022-12-21T22:50:00ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Bioethics1128-74621591-73982022-12-01331657710.1080/11287462.2022.2052603Glocalization of bioethicsHimani Bhakuni0University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsThere appears to be a conflict between global bioethical principles and the local understanding and application of these principles, but this conflict has misleadingly been characterized through the east–west dichotomy. This dichotomy portrays bioethical principles as western and as alien to non-western cultures. In this paper, I present reasons to reject the east–west dichotomy. Using the discussion around the principle of informed consent as an example, I propose that while bioethical values are common, bioethical governance must display a certain flexibility akin to Aristotle’s metaphor about the Lesbian rule. Such flexibility combined with a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of bioethical subjects might lead to the purging of tensions between global and local, giving us Glocal Bioethics.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/11287462.2022.2052603Glocalizationglocal bioethicscultural differenceLesbian ruleinformed consent |
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| title | Glocalization of bioethics |
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| title_short | Glocalization of bioethics |
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