Language in Bioethics: Beyond the Representational View.
Though assumptions about language underlie all bioethical work, the field has rarely partaken of theories of language. This article encourages a more linguistically engaged bioethics. We describe the tacit conception of language that is frequently upheld in bioethics—what we call the representationa...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 41 - 54 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2025
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