Questions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decentering

dc.contributor.authorRussell, Camisha
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-09T00:32:30Z
dc.date.available2022-06-09T00:32:30Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description20 pages.en_US
dc.description.abstractPhilosophers working in bioethics often hope to identify abstract principles and universal values to guide professional practice, relying on ideals of objectivity and impartiality, and on the power of rational (individual, autonomous) deliberation. Such a focus has made it difficult to address issues arising from group-based, sociohistorical differences like race and ethnicity. This essay offers a survey of some of the major issues concerning race in the field of bioethics. These issues include a long history of racialized abuse in medical and scientific research, reproductive injustice and abuse against women of color, and persistent racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. health and healthcare. The essay also argues that the field of bioethics as a whole would be improved by taking the experience of racial minorities into account in all its theorizing. Philosophers can aid in this task by expanding their theoretical focus beyond questions of individual rights to questions of social justice, beyond informed consent to community collaboration, and beyond cultural competency to both structural competency and cultural humility.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCamisha Russell (2016): Questions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decentering, Philosophy Comass, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12302en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27191
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPhilosophy Compassen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectraceen_US
dc.subjectbioethicsen_US
dc.subjectsocial justiceen_US
dc.titleQuestions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decenteringen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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