Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine?
In an article in The Boston Globe, Steven Pinker holds that the primary moral good of bioethics should be to "get out of the way". The accusation that bioethics is an obstacle to research because it calls attention to basic principles such as personal dignity and justice is clearly contrad...
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| description | In an article in The Boston Globe, Steven Pinker holds that the primary moral good of bioethics should be to "get out of the way". The accusation that bioethics is an obstacle to research because it calls attention to basic principles such as personal dignity and justice is clearly contradicted by the facts. There are, nonetheless, other ways in which bioethics can stand in the way of science, two of which, bureaucratisation and the loss of cultural vivacity, are worth addressing. Ethics committees provide a framework for evaluating problems and determining an appropriate course of action. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d6853e905e1d4933a36f6bc7e9e7cdde2022-12-21T18:52:34ZengIstituto Superiore di SanitàAnnali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità0021-25712015-12-0151426526610.4415/ANN_15_04_03S0021-25712015000400003Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine?Carlo Petrini0Enrico Alleva1Istituto Superiore di Sanit`Istituto Superiore di Sanit`In an article in The Boston Globe, Steven Pinker holds that the primary moral good of bioethics should be to "get out of the way". The accusation that bioethics is an obstacle to research because it calls attention to basic principles such as personal dignity and justice is clearly contradicted by the facts. There are, nonetheless, other ways in which bioethics can stand in the way of science, two of which, bureaucratisation and the loss of cultural vivacity, are worth addressing. Ethics committees provide a framework for evaluating problems and determining an appropriate course of action.http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-25712015000400003&lng=en&tlng=enbioethicsethics committeeshuman experimentation |
| spellingShingle | Carlo Petrini Enrico Alleva Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine? Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità bioethics ethics committees human experimentation |
| title | Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine? |
| title_full | Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine? |
| title_fullStr | Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine? |
| title_short | Medicine saved ethics: Has ethics harmed medicine? |
| title_sort | medicine saved ethics has ethics harmed medicine |
| topic | bioethics ethics committees human experimentation |
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