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Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters: Lessons for Bioethics from the Social Sciences and Managed Care
Author(s) -
NELSON JAMES LINDEMANN
Publication year - 2000
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 - 10.2307/3527989
Subject(s) - bioethics , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , law , philosophy
O n the usual account of moral reasoning, social science is often seen as able to provide “just the facts,” while philosophy attends to moral values and conceptual clarity and builds formally valid arguments. Yet disciplines are informed by epistemic values—and bioethics might do well to see social scientific practices and their attendant normative understandings about what is humanly important as a significant part of ethics generally.

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