Bioethics for the 21st century: building hope
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https://doi.org/10.14422/rib.i01.y2016.001Keywords:
Bioethics, civic bioethics, global bioethics, applied ethics, ethics of care, ethics of responsibility, ethics of dialogueAbstract
Bioethics faces the challenge of collaborating in building a just and sustainable world. This article analyzes the birth of bioethics as a civic bioethics of pluralistic societies in the context of applied ethics, its evolution to become a global bioethics, its current structure, the challenges it faces, and finally the kind of practical reasoning that should guide its task if bioethics is to achieve its goals.
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