The Pandemic: Lessons for Bioethics?
Hastings Cent Rep
; 50(3): 7-8, 2020 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-620181
ABSTRACT
Seeking useful ways to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, bioethicists have been tempted to claim for themselves what Alasdair MacIntyre characterized in After Virtue as the moral fiction of managerial expertise. They have been eager to offer a wide range of policy prescriptions, presenting themselves as bureaucratic managers and suggesting an expertise that bioethics may not in fact be able to offer. This was evident, for example, in the petition published by The Hastings Center in March 2020. The pandemic could foster a more hopeful future for bioethics if it were to focus attention less on policy decisions that belong to all citizens and more on some of the most basic moral questions that life presents and with which bioethics has always dealt-including, surely, the virtues needed in order to live well in a time of pandemic.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Bioethical Issues
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Hastings Cent Rep
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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