Philosophies and Sociologies of Bioethics [electronic resource] : Crossing the divides /
Riesch, Hauke.editor.
Emmerich, Nathan.editor.
Wainwright, Steven.editor.
This book is an interdisciplinary contribution to bioethics, bringing together philosophers, sociologists and Science and Technology Studies researchers as a way of bridging the disciplinary divides that have opened up in the study of bioethics. Each discipline approaches the topic through its own lens providing either normative statements or empirical studies, and the distance between the disciplines is heightened not only by differences in approach, but also disagreements over the values, interpretations and problematics within bioethical research. In order to converse across these divides, this volume includes contributions from several disciplines. The volume examines the sociological issues faced by interdisciplinary research in bioethics, the role of expertise, moral generalisations, distributed agency, and the importance of examining what is not being talked about. Other contributions try to take an interdisciplinary look at a range of specific situations, fetal alcohol syndrome in the media, citizen science, electronic cigarettes and bioethical issues in human geography.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Hauke Riesch and Steven Wainwright (editors' introduction): Social identity and interdisciplinarity: some lessons from sociology and philosophy of science -- Part 1: Interdisciplinarity in ethics -- 2. Steven Wainwright: STS & Ethics: Distinction, Boundary Work and the History of Human Geography -- 4. Nathan Emmerich: Rethinking Bioethical Expertise: From a Philosophical to a Social Theoretical Perspective -- Part 2: New theoretical approaches -- 3. Oliver Feeney: Normalising the Enhancement Discourse: Genetics, Social Structures and Moral Generalisations -- 6. Brian Rappert: Meeting in the Missing? A ‘Non-’ as a Strategic Topic for Conversing the Divides -- 7. Katie Kendig: Scientific practice and the heterogeneous construction of distributed agency -- Part 3: Interdisciplinary research -- 5. Angela M. Filipe: ‘Is ADHD real?’ or how ethnography might bring sociology and the philosophy of medicine together -- 8. Hauke Riesch: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, public health advice, and the prevention paradox.
This book is an interdisciplinary contribution to bioethics, bringing together philosophers, sociologists and Science and Technology Studies researchers as a way of bridging the disciplinary divides that have opened up in the study of bioethics. Each discipline approaches the topic through its own lens providing either normative statements or empirical studies, and the distance between the disciplines is heightened not only by differences in approach, but also disagreements over the values, interpretations and problematics within bioethical research. In order to converse across these divides, this volume includes contributions from several disciplines. The volume examines the sociological issues faced by interdisciplinary research in bioethics, the role of expertise, moral generalisations, distributed agency, and the importance of examining what is not being talked about. Other contributions try to take an interdisciplinary look at a range of specific situations, fetal alcohol syndrome in the media, citizen science, electronic cigarettes and bioethical issues in human geography.
Bioethics.
Bioethics.
Sociological Theory.