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. 2013 Mar;21(1):20-30.
doi: 10.1007/s10728-012-0220-5.

What's the point of philosophical bioethics?

Iain Brassington  1
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What's the point of philosophical bioethics?

Iain Brassington. Health Care Anal. 2013 Mar.

Abstract

Many people working in bioethics take pride in the subject's embrace of a wide range of disciplines. This invites questions of what in particular is added by each. In this paper, I focus on the role of philosophy within the field: what, if anything, is its unique contribution to bioethics? I sketch out a claim that philosophy is central to bioethics because of its particular analytic abilities, and defend its place within bioethics from a range of sceptical attacks.

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