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A meta-science for a global bioethics and biomedicine
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Basser, DS, A meta-science for a global bioethics and biomedicine, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 12, (9) pp. 1-8. ISSN 1747-5341 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2017 The Author. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
DOI: doi:10.1186/s13010-017-0051-y
Abstract
Background: As suggested by Shook and Giordano, understanding and therefore addressing the urgent international governance issues around globalizing bio-medical/technology research and applications is limited by the perception of the underlying science.
Methods:
A philosophical methodology is used, based on novel and classical philosophical reflection upon existent literature, clinical wisdoms and narrative theory to discover a meta-science and telos of humankind for the development of a relevant and defendable global biomedical bioethics.
Results: In this article, through pondering an integrative systems approach, I propose a biomedical model that may provide Western biomedicine with leadership and interesting insight into the unity beyond the artificial boundaries of its traditional divisions and the limit between physiological and pathological situations (health and disease). A unified biomedicine, as scientific foundation, might then provide the basis for dissolution of similar reflected boundaries within bioethics. A principled and communitarian cosmopolitan bioethics may then be synonymous with a recently proposed principled and communitarian cosmopolitan neuroethics based on a novel objective meta-ethics. In an attempt to help facilitate equal and inclusive participation in inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary intercultural discourse regarding the aforementioned international governance issues, I offer: (1) a meta-science derived through considering the general behaviour of activity, plasticity and balance in biology and; (2) a novel thought framework to encourage and enhance the ability for self-evaluation, self-criticism, and self-revision aimed at broadening perspective, as well as acknowledging and responding to the strengths and limitations of extant knowledge.
Conclusions: Through classical philosophical reflection, I evolve a theory of medicine to discover a telos of humankind which in turn provides an ‘internal’ moral grounding for a proposed global biomedical bioethics.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Communitarian cosmopolitan, Digital biomedicine, Discernment continuum, Global bioethics, Global biomedicine, Global systemic shift, Integrative biomedicine, Meta-science, Neuroethics, Telos of humankind |
Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Applied ethics |
Research Field: | Bioethics |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Basser, DS (Dr David Basser) |
ID Code: | 122594 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2017-11-20 |
Last Modified: | 2018-05-08 |
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