On the Shoulders of Giants: A Reckoning with Social Justice
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....
| Published in: | The Hastings Center report |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Pages: 72-78 |
| Further subjects: | B
intergenerational knowledge
B Social Justice B Black bioethicists B anti-Black racism B Black bioethics |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1377 |