MIND THE GAP: THE USE OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN BIOETHICS

Value Inquiry Book Series

Volumn 165, Issue , 2005, Pages 77-91

  Garrard, Eve ^a   Wilkinson, Stephen ^a  

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DOI: 10.1163/9789401201353_011     Document Type: Chapter

References (30)

1. See the allegory of the cave, Plato, The Republic, trans. H. D. P. Lee (Harmond-sworth: Penguin Books, 1972), VII 514a-521b
2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W. D. Ross, revised by J. L.Ackrill and J. 0. Urmson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 160.
3. See David Wiggins, "Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life," Proceedings ofthe British Academy, 62 (1976), pp. 331-378.
4. See Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (London: Fontana Press, 1985).
5. See John McDowell, "Non-Cognitivism and Rule-Following," Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule, ed. Steven H. Boltzmann and Christopher M. Leich (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).
6. See Hilary Putnam, "The Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy," The Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).
7. See Richard Hare, The Language of Morals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952).
8. Michael Ruse and Edward Wilson, "Moral Philosophy as Applied Science," Philosophy, 61:236 (April 1986), pp. 173-192.
9. David McCarthy, "Why Sex Selection Should be Legal," Journal of Medical Ethics, 27:5 (October 2001), p. 304. See also: Robert Boyle and Julian Savulescu, "Ethics of Using Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to Select a Stem Cell Donor for an Existing Person," British Medical Journal, 323:7323 (24 November 2001), p. 1242.
10. I0. Robert Zussman, "The Contributions of Sociology to Medical Ethics," Hastings Center Report, 30: I (January-February 2000), p. 9.
11. Robert Brecher, "Surrogacy, Liberal Individualism and the Moral Climate," Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Problems, ed. J. D. G. Evans (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 195.
12. James Lindemann Nelson, "Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters: Lessons for Bioethics from the Social Sciences and Managed Care," Hastings Center Report, 30:1 (January-February 2000), p. 12.
13. Mairi Levitt, "Better Together? Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics," Scratching the Surface of Bioethics, ed. Matti Hayry and Tuija Takala (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003), p. 11. See also Soren Holm, Ethical Problems in Clinical Practice (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), pp. 23-39;
14. Zussman, "The Contributions of Sociology to Medical Ethics," p. 9.
15. Erica Haimes, "What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical, and Substantive Considerations," Bioethics, 16:2 (April 2002), p. 89.
16. Haimes, "What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics?," pp. 92-3.
17. Nigel Warburton, Thinking from A to Z (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2000), p. 70.
18. Ananova (www.ananova.com), "Clone Einstein Not Jesus," 28 January 2003.
19. For a useful overview see Methods in Medical Ethics, ed. Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel P. Sulmasy (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001), pp. 146-191.
20. Levitt, "Better Together?," p. 12.
21. See Eve Garrard and Stephen Wilkinson, "Does Bioethics Need Moral Theory?," Scratching the Surface ofBioethics, ed. Matti Hayry and Tuija Takala (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003), pp. 35-45.
22. John Harris, "Introduction: The Scope and Importance of Bioethics," Bioethics, ed. John Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 7-8.
23. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Association (HFEA), Sex Selection: Choice and Responsibility in Human Reproduction, www.hfea.gov.uk, 2002.
24. The HFEA, Sex Selection, p. 5.
25. The HFEA, Sex Selection, p. 6.
26. Margaret Brazier, Alastair Campbell, and Susan Golombok, Surrogacy: Review for Health Ministers of Current Arrangements for Payments and Regulation (London: The Stationery Office, 1998).
27. The HFEA, Sex Selection, p. 6 (our emphasis).
28. See Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson, "Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification," Bioethics, 12:4 (October 1998), pp. 263-285.
29. Haimes, "What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics?," p. I03.
30. Levitt, "Better Together?," p. 17.