Vortrag: Ethics as power process

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Titel: Ethics as power process
Beschreibung: "The letter „E“ in ELSA refers to a specific approach in dealing with ethical aspects of modern biomedicine and genome research. According to this approach the main ethical task allegedly consisted in finding general principles to be used as guideline for research and medical action. Such ethical understanding postulates two important premises. Firstly, that the position of the philosopher is the position of an outsider who is a non-involved observer. Secondly, that ethical problems emerging in the context of genetic medicine are best dealt with by the production of appropriate ethical rules. With this paper, I want to counter the aforementioned ethical approach. There are at least two important reasons for my criticism. At first, it can be argued that the position of an ethicist is no longer one of a neutral outsider. This is particularly true for collaborative arrangements commonly described with the acronym ELSA. Rather it is so that ethicists have themselves become actors in the field which they set out to analyse and advice. Ethicists have become actors of the biomedical ensemble to the extent to which they inform law-making and produce policy relevant documents. There is a second reason why I oppose the mentioned ethical approach. In the biomedical context, ethical problems are prompted by specific, organisationally structured situations in which decisions are made and diagnoses are established. Deducing solutions from general principles often does not offer useful answers for those who need to cope with the problems prompted during the encounter with genetic medicine. Therefore I suggest an inductive approach. Ethics must start from what concretely happens in the given situation.
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Veranstaltung: EASST Conference 2010: Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social (Trento)
Datum: 03.09.2010
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Wilhelm Berger
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