Globalizing Feminist Bioethics of Care
Globalizing Feminist Bioethics of Care

Author(s): Rosemarie Tong
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Demography and human biology
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: ethics; feminist bioethics; care; responsibility; vulnerability
Summary/Abstract: As usually presented, there are three ways to understand the term “global bioethics.” First, the term may be understood simply as a subfield of bioethics—one that focuses on global issues that nations cannot resolve independently. Examples include patenting disputes, pandemics, genetic material controversies, medical tourism and trade in human tissue (be it stem cells or human organs). Second, the term “global bioethics” may refer to developments in the field of bioethics as a whole. The bioethics climate is such that it has generated new organizations such as the International Association of Bioethics and the International Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Some of the approaches to bioethics represented in these organizations rely heavily on Tom Beauchamp and James Childress’s Principles of Bioethics (Beauchamp and Childress 1994). But an increasing number of them rely instead on culturally specific philosophical, religious, and literary traditions. Third, and finally, the term “global bioethics” or, more precisely, “globalizing bioethics” may refer to the attempt to find a conceptual foundation particularist enough to accommodate human diversities, yet universal enough to serve as a common base from which collaborative action can be launched.

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