Towards Global Thinking in Bioethics: Hybridizing "Biology" and "Ethics".

Ethics as a field should, we argue, pay more attention to the (eco)system. Van Rensselaer Potter, one of the pillars of contemporary bioethics, advocated for a global "bios" ethics that literally and metaphorically bridges the gap between biological knowledge and ethical reflection. However, a Potte...

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Publicado en:Ethics & the Environment Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 1 - 57
Autores principales: LeBlanc, Antoine Boudreau, Aenishaenslin, Cécile, Williams-Jones, Bryn
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Publicado: Indiana University Press Fall2024
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      ab: Ethics as a field should, we argue, pay more attention to the (eco)system. Van Rensselaer Potter, one of the pillars of contemporary bioethics, advocated for a global "bios" ethics that literally and metaphorically bridges the gap between biological knowledge and ethical reflection. However, a Potterian Bio-Ethics faces a major obstacle: its acentric focus. Consequently, Global Bio-Ethics remains opaque for those trained under the anthropocentric biomedical ethics that instrumentalizes the environment. This paper aims to demystify two key concepts—Globality and Complexity—and show how a Potterian Bio-Ethics can effectively bridge the gap between knowledge-building in ecology and policy-making in the context of medical and environmental practices. Drawing on an experience in Québec, Canada, to mitigate the threat of antimicrobial resistance using a biosurveillance system, we show the utility of having ethics as an integral part of ecosystem(ic) approaches to bridge health and environment. We conclude by arguing that bioethics (and bioethicists) should become a locus for cascading communication, collaboration, and translation by co-constructing biosurveillance data governance.
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