Daedalus articles from September 1999

Daedalus archives from September 1999

Introduction.
September 22, 1999... BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE have achieved the status of cynosure in science and in the society of our era. They possess enormous cultural and commercial capital and are among the most visible and influential fields of our globalized world. It is...

Is Medical Education Asking Too Much of Bioethics?
September 22, 1999... TEACHING THE "NONBIOMEDICAL" ASPECTS OF MEDICINE: THE PERENNIAL PATTERN AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATORS presently espouse, and are pedagogically committed to, the goal of fostering medical students' ability to integrate biomedical,...

Meanings, Policies, and Medicine: On the Bioethical Enterprise and History.
September 22, 1999... ONE CAN HARDLY IGNORE the widely shared conviction that we are living through a period of crisis in health care. And that crisis is more than economic and administrative, though its most egregious symptoms present themselves in these...

Professional Ethicist Available: Logical, Secular, Friendly.(bioethics)
September 22, 1999... Problem resolution through ethics based decisionmaking. Professional ethicist provides practical supportive help with personal decisions. Logical, Secular, Friendly --personals' advertisement [1] WRITING IN 1919, Max Weber said: ...

Moral Experience and Ethical Reflection: Can Ethnography Reconcile Them? A Quandary for "The New Bioethics".
September 22, 1999... REMAKING THE CASE FOR BIOETHICS WITH HASTENING PACE, bioethics in America is moving in manifold ways to deal with serious problems in its modus operandi. These problems have become so well known they are by now c1iches. In previous studies...

Public Good, Ethics, and Everyday Life: Beyond the Boundaries of Bioethics.
September 22, 1999... IN RECENT YEARS MANY ANTHROPOLOGISTS have taken important steps to bring the moral, conceived as a dimension of all relationships forged in the context of the lived world of local communities, in conversation with bioethics, seen as the...

Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation.
September 22, 1999... PROLOGUE: THE SCAR WE ARE SITTING in a one-room municipal housing-project flat in a Chennai slum, in a room filled with photographs of the man of the house posing with Tamil political leaders. His wife, one of the persons I am interviewing...

Clinical Realities and Moral Dilemmas: Contrasting Perspectives from Academic Medicine in Kenya, Tanzania, and America.
September 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION PYSICIANS IN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS in Africa face a fundamental moral crisis: hospitals are overwhelmed by patients dying from AIDS, and physicians have few resources to respond. In such settings, not only do physicians face...

Prognostication and Bioethics.
September 22, 1999... A SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC CRITIQUE of the field of bioethics can occur on at least two levels. The first involves the use of social-science theory to destabilize some of the assumptions underlying bioethics--for example, by arguing that ethics are...

Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health Inequalities.(United States)
September 22, 1999... JUSTICE AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES WE HAVE KNOWN for over 150 years that an individual's chances of life and death are patterned according to social class: the more affluent and educated people are, the longer and healthier their lives. [1]...

Are We Professionals? A Critical Look at the Social Role of Bioethicists.
September 22, 1999... BIOETHICS CAN BE DEFINED as the branch of ethics that investigates problems arising from medicine and biological innovation. [1] Over the past decade it has had remarkable growth and experienced increasing social legitimacy. A national...

The Social Sciences and the Task of Bioethics.
September 22, 1999... IT TOOK ME SOME YEARS to realize the obvious. Ethics is a peculiar enterprise: a professional discipline for some, a matter of uncertainty and even suspicion for others, and for most people something they are, like it or not, supposed to take...

What Contributions Have Social Science and the Law Made to the Development of Policy on Bioethics?
September 22, 1999... TO WHAT EXTENT has the formation of public policy on bioethical issues been grounded in scientific findings? Very little. Though disturbing, this may hardly seem remarkable: after all, the same is true for most policies, outside of some...