On a communitarian approach to bioethics |
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Authors: | Amitai Etzioni |
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Institution: | (1) George Washington University, 1922 F Street NW, Rm 413, Washington, DC 20052, USA |
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Abstract: | A communitarian approach to bioethics adds a core value to a field that is often more concerned with considerations of individual
autonomy. Some interpretations of liberalism put the needs of the patient over those of the community; authoritarian communitarianism
privileges the needs of society over those of the patient. Responsive communitarianism’s main starting point is that we face
two conflicting core values, autonomy and the common good, and that neither should be a priori privileged, and that we have
principles and procedures that can be used to work out this conflict but not to eliminate it. This discussion uses the debate
in the US over funding for entitlements as a case study to apply the values of communitarian bioethics. |
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