Assessing Empirical Research in Bioethics
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Brody, Baruch A.
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Theoretical Medicine. 1993 Sep; 14(3): 211-219.
Abstract
Empirical research can aid ethical reflection in bioethics by identifying issues, by seeing how they are currently resolved, and by assessing the consequences of these current resolutions. This potential can be misused when the ethical issues in question are fundamentally non-consequentialist or when they are consequentialist but the empirical research fails to address the important consequences. An example of the former problem is some recent studies about bad consequences resulting from commercialized living kidney donor programs. These consequences could be avoided, but the crucial non-consequentialist ethical issues about exploitation and commercialization would still remain. Examples of the latter problem are provided by recent studies of the allocation of ICU beds and of physician deception, where important consequences were not adequately studied.
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1993-09Subject
Attitudes; Bioethics; Biomedical Technologies; Body Parts and Fluids; Clinical Ethics; Communication; Deception; Decision Making; Donors; Empirical Research; Ethical Analysis; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Intensive Care Units; Interdisciplinary Communication; Kidneys; Literature; Medical Ethics; Medicine; Methods; Moral Policy; Organ Donation; Patient Admission; Physicians; Remuneration; Research; Resource Allocation; Selection for Treatment; Socioeconomic Factors; Tissue Donation;
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Assessing Empirical Research in Bioethics
Brody, Baruch A. (1993-09)