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IAB PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BIOETHICS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD – CREATING SPACE FOR FLOURISHING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
Author(s) -
BILLERANDORNO NIKOLA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01927.x
Subject(s) - bioethics , flourishing , environmental ethics , equity (law) , cosmopolitanism , sustainability , perspective (graphical) , sociology , prosperity , political science , presidential address , engineering ethics , social science , law , public administration , psychology , philosophy , biology , social psychology , ecology , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , engineering
Bioethics in a globalized world is meeting a number of challenges – fundamentalism in its different forms, and a focus on economic growth neglecting issues such as equity and sustainability, being prominent among them. How well are we as bioethicists equipped to make meaningful contributions in these times? The paper identifies a number of restraints and proceeds to probe potential resources such as the capability approach, care ethics, cosmopolitanism, and pragmatism. These elements serve to outline a perspective that focuses on the preconditions for flourishing human relationships as a way to address bioethical challenges in a globalized world.