How to build a theory about empirical bioethics: Acknowledging the limitations of empirical research

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Fry, Craig L (2009) How to build a theory about empirical bioethics: Acknowledging the limitations of empirical research. American Journal of Bioethics, 9 (6-7). pp. 83-85. ISSN 1526-5161

Abstract

Achieving genuine integration of the normative and empirical in bioethics is no small task. It is nevertheless an important one because of the focus of bioethics upon questions and scenarios of central relevance to the lives of individuals and populations. Clarity in our descriptions of and responses to the barriers and enablers of health, identity, life and death, and agency is becoming increasingly important in a rapidly diversifying bioethics containing many perspectives on these issues. Empirical bioethics promises to facilitate greater decisional clarity for better health outcomes.

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Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/10516
DOI 10.1080/15265160902893882
Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265160902893882
Subjects Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing
Historical > FOR Classification > 2201 Applied Ethics
Keywords ResPubID25167 Bioethics research, normativity, epistemic values, empirical bioethics, internal morality, normative moral evaluation
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