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- Title
History and Bioethics.
- Authors
Fins, Joseph J.
- Abstract
Cultural historians and historians of medicine are a rarity in bioethics. Even those who write histories of bioethics are philosophers, sociologists, or theologians. Where have all the historians gone? If bioethics is to contribute to the urgent work of addressing social justice, structural racism, and health inequity, we bioethicists need to embrace history as a fully constituent part of our field. Historians can help us apprehend the ideas that shaped bioethics, and health policy more broadly, and discover the dissenting arguments that might inspire us now. Given our annus horribilis, history has become an instrumental necessity. It is only through the study of history that we can understand the past so as to reimagine how bioethics can influence health policy and work toward health equity.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL standards; PRACTICAL politics; SOCIAL justice; HEALTH care reform; PHILOSOPHY; BIOETHICS
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2021, Vol 51, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.1238