The social sciences and the task of bioethics

Daedalus

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 275-294

  Callahan, Daniel ^a  

^a HASTINGS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICIST; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTIVATION; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RELIGION; SECULARISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; UNCERTAINTY;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; ETHICISTS; ETHICS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GOALS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; METHODS; PHILOSOPHY; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIGION; SECULARISM; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL VALUES; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0033185929     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Charles E. Lindblom, "Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s," Dædalus 126 (1) (1997): 234.
2. Jessica H. Muller, "Anthropology, Bioethics, and Medicine: A Provocative Trilogy," Medical Anthropology 8 (4) (1992): 460.
3. See Daniel Callahan, "The Hastings Center and the Early Years of Bioethics," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 9 (1) (1999): 53-71, for a fuller account of the rise of bioethics, as well as a number of other essays in the same issue that explore the same history.
4. See, in particular, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
5. The work of the late philosopher Hans Jonas was as much appreciated by a large number of us in the early years of bioethics as it was neglected by the generation of analytically trained philosophers who came after him. The main reason for that respect was that Jonas had good insights and good arguments and had, in his own life, lived through some of the great moral crises of the twentieth century.
6. See, for instance, Sidney Callahan, In Good Conscience: Reason and Emotion in Moral Decision Making (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), which shows why it has been a mistake for many contemporary moral philosophers to draw too sharp a distinction between reason and emotion.
7. Alexander Nehamas, "Trends in Recent American Philosophy," Dædalus 126 (1) (1997): 219.
8. Jessica H. Muller and Barbara A. Koenig, "On the Boundary of Life and Death: The Definition of Dying by Medical Residents," in Biomedicine Examined, ed. Margaret Lock and Deborah Gordon (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988), 369.
9. Arthur Kleinman, Writing at the Margin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 44-45.
10. Barry Hoffmaster, "Introduction," in Bioethics in Context: Social Science Contributions to Moral Understanding, ed. Barry Hoffmaster (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
11. Barry Hoffmaster, "Can Ethnography Save the Life of Medical Ethics?" Social Science and Medicine 35 (1992): 1428.
12. Thomas Nagel, The Last Word (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 106.
13. Joseph Fletcher, Medicine and Morals (Boston: Beacon Press, 1954).
14. Kleinman, Writing at the Margin, 55.
15. Barry Hoffmaster, "Morality and the Social Sciences," in Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, ed. George Weisz (Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), 253-254.
16. Kleinman, Writing at the Margin, 53.
17. Kleinman, Writing at the Margin, Ibid., 48.
18. Mary-Jo Good, "Cultural Studies of Biomedicine: An Agenda for Research," Social Science and Medicine 41 (4) (1995): 461-473.