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On the Shoulders of Giants: A Reckoning with Social Justice
Author(s) -
BogdanLovis Elizabeth,
KellyBlake Karen,
Jiang Wendy
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.1377
Subject(s) - bioethics , racism , sociology , white (mutation) , economic justice , social justice , shoulders , field (mathematics) , law , gender studies , environmental ethics , criminology , political science , medicine , philosophy , biochemistry , surgery , mathematics , pure mathematics , gene , chemistry
As a field, bioethics has failed to adequately change in a direction that pursues and addresses continually shifting contemporary social problems, in particular, anti‐Black racism. In this essay, we draw from interviews with four senior Black scholars—Anita L. Allen, Claretta Y. Dupree, Patricia A. King, and Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr.—to learn from their experiences in this field dominated by White‐majority thought and to consider thematically how best to recalibrate bioethics to imagine a braver, broader, and better bioethics, one that centers social justice and is equipped to work against anti‐Black racism.