The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics

The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, across various locations, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. The book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics, as it is supported and practised by various disciplines such as philosophy, law, medicine, and the social sciences, applied to a wide range of areas. The European focus offers a valuable counterbalance to the often prominent US understanding of bioethics.

The volume is divided into four parts. The first part contains reflections on bioethics in the past, present, and future, and also considers how comparisons between countries and disciplines can enrich bioethical discourse. The second part examines bioethics in specific locations and contexts, including policy, boardrooms and courtrooms, studios and virtual rooms, and society. The third part explores the translation of theories and concepts of bioethics into the clinical setting.

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. You can access it here.