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  • They are the stuff, too, of a truly global bioethic, if one is possible, as opposed to a merely globalised American bioethic.

    MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009

  • By far the most influential bioethic in the world today is Principlism.

    MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009

  • Even if we agree that some global bioethic is possible, there are rival claimants as to which it should be and there may be a suspicion that a kind of "values imperialism" is going on, with one group colonizing the mores of the other.

    MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009

  • Some people today dream of a "value-free" bioethic, liberated from the "moralizing",

    MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009

  • In the first part of my paper today I attempted to make some sense of and critique the Principlist bioethic that has been globalised by the American bioethics industry.

    MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009

  • To the extent that this represents cultural conditioning, it must make us wary of the globalisation of the Georgetown bioethic.

    MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009

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