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Moral Consensus in Bioethics: Illusive or Just Elusive?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2002

GRIFFIN TROTTER
GRIFFIN TROTTER
Affiliation:
Center for Health Care Ethics and Department of Surgery, Emergency Medicine Division, at Saint Louis University
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Abstract

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This issue of CQ was conceived in Salt Lake City, at the third annual meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). There, President-elect Laurie Zoloth delivered a stirring address, emphasizing the role of bioethics in responding to social deprivations and suggesting that ASBH “take a stand” on important issues where members share consensus. Not all the stirrings were pleasant. Debate erupted about the propriety of consensus statements, especially regarding possible deleterious effects on academic discourse, misappropriation of dues, and the proliferation of quasi-political factions. The roots of this controversy extend deeply into the collective psyche of contemporary bioethics.

Type
Editorial
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 1 - 3
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press