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Year: 2006

Pages: 203-227

Series: Human Studies

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Klaus Hoeyer, ""Ethics wars"", Human Studies 29 (2), 2006, pp. 203-227.

"Ethics wars"

reflections on the antagonism between bioethicists and social science observers of biomedicine

Klaus Hoeyer

pp. 203-227

in: Human Studies 29 (2), 2006.

Abstract

Social scientists often lament the fact that philosophically trained ethicists pay limited attention to the insights they generate. This paper presents an overview of tendencies in sociological and anthropological studies of morality, ethics and bioethics, and suggests that a lack in philosophical interest might be related to a tendency among social scientists to employ either a deficit model (social science perspectives accommodate the sense of context that philosophical ethics lacks), a replacement model (social scientists have finally found the "right way" of doing ethics), or a dismissal model (ethics should be abandoned all together as a misconstrued veil of power). Increased awareness of differences in styles of reasoning and objects of research interest might help to overcome the hostility, and an anthropological project is presented as an invitation to a dialogue informed by awareness of such differences.

Publication details

Year: 2006

Pages: 203-227

Series: Human Studies

Full citation:

Klaus Hoeyer, ""Ethics wars"", Human Studies 29 (2), 2006, pp. 203-227.