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AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO BIOETHICS: SOCIAL SCIENCE 'OF', 'FOR' AND 'IN' BIOETHICS RESEARCH.
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Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior . Jun2007, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p319-330. 12p. 1 Diagram. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- In 1997, the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics programme was launched in the UK, with a strategy that sought to encourage bioethics research that married normative philosophical bioethics and social science methodologies. This paper explores a few of the children of this marriage, particularly those approaches that have been taken in an attempt to make this interdisciplinary marriage a happy one. We suggest that the dominant discourse has involved social science for bioethics, and sociology of bioethics, and we suggest further that neither of these approaches represent a happy and equal marriage. We then outline a third approach: social science in bioethics. Drawing upon our experiences of conducting such a project we describe the broad methodological approach that we have taken, and outline how, and why, this approach might be productive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *BIOETHICS
*SOCIAL sciences
*METHODOLOGY
*SOCIOLOGY
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 12248398
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25605346