The Owl and the Caduceus

摘要: What has been the contribution of philosophy to emerging interdisciplinary field bioethics? Although news might come as a shock philosophers accustomed their lowly and marginal status within American intellectual life, growing chorus skeptical casuists, feminists, social scientists, narrativists have conclusion that philosophy’s role in bioethics both dominant disconcerting. We hear philosophy, especially guise its Anglo-American analytic wing, largely dominated for past thirty years, bequeathing it distinctive language, method, agenda. some this criticism distinct appearance flavor “sour grapes” (“Hey, what about us!”), charge played formation contemporary seems descriptively correct well nigh undeniable. Ever since emergence mantra “autonomy, beneficence, justice” from primeval soup rival moral theologies 1970s, language (1).