RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Does bioethics exist?
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 778
OP 780
DO 10.1136/jme.2008.028605
VO 35
IS 12
A1 L Turner
YR 2009
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/35/12/778.abstract
AB Bioethicists disagree over methods, theories, decision-making guides, case analyses and public policies. Thirty years ago, the thinking of many scholars coalesced around a principlist approach to bioethics. That mid-level mode of moral reasoning is now one of many approaches to moral deliberation. Significant variation in contemporary approaches to the study of ethical issues related to medicine, biotechnology and health care raises the question of whether bioethics exists as widely shared method, theory, normative framework or mode of moral reasoning.