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Vol. 56 No. 3 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2007.318
La bioetica: il punto di vista dell'outsider
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Forty years from the beginning of the rich dialogue between life sciences and human studies, introduced by bioethics, we feel the necessity of a deeper evaluation of some aspects related to bioethics, among others the future possibilities, the origin, in a particular perspective: that of the outsider. It is to move the attention from the special case study, in the perspective of the insider, to the study of issue related to the "border bioethics". The intellectual outsider challenges the conventional bioethics. He takes the deplorable events of our time and allows a further and deeper evaluation, recalling or sometimes reformulating, the responsibilities of normative disciplines. In this direction, an example has been given by Henry Beecher Anaesthesia Professor at the University of Harvard, in 1966. Going out of the ranks of the medical profession, he was interested in the vulnerability condition of experimental subjects; he denounced the numerous experimentations where the patients did not give their consent or had not been informed about the risks. Other philosophers and scientists went beyond, as Beecher, the borders of the conventional bioethics, examining in detail the so called "border issues": for example, the responsibility to offer the necessary cares, medical and social, to the refugees desperately searching for kindergarten; the care of the torture victims. This experience of "outsider" gives the possibility to offer rational answers to the society, developing, at the same time, a believable public ethics, also enriching bioethical contents and reflections, defined, in the 70s, as "the study of the moral dimension of each human conduct, in the field of the science of life and health".
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La bioetica: il punto di vista dell’outsider. (2007). Medicina E Morale, 56(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2007.318
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