Social Bioethics
Description
The field of Bioethics has been traditionally centred in —and immensely influenced by— the relationship between the therapist and the patient, and then, it has emphasised autonomy and nonmaleficence as the most important values to take into account. This is also true for other non-clinical fields of application, including animal welfare and human research. Notwithstanding its great contribution in resolving crucial ethical dilemmata, some of the most important ethical challenges of our time are explicitly non-covered by the individualistic scale of this analysis: the duty of vaccination, social care for vulnerable population (children, elderly, migrants), development of genetically-modified organisms, birth control (promotion or limitation).
Our main goal is to generate a new corpus of literature, philosophical reflections and methods that we call “Social Bioethics”, starting from communitarianism, care ethics and social ethics traditions.
Where
Independent