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1 juin 2008
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fact value biomedical ethics normativism naturalismSujets proches
Life sciences--Moral and ethical aspects Biomedical ethics Life sciences ethics Biology--Moral and ethical aspectsCiter ce document
Antonio Casado da Rocha et al., « FACT AND VALUE IN BIOETHICS: HOW TO GET RID OF THE DICHOTOMY », Praxis Filosófica, ID : 10670/1.l23eny
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This article offers a perspective on recent developments in bioethics, a field in which the distinction between fact and value is pervasive. By surveying how the word “value” is used in principle- based, mainstream biomedical ethics, it is shown that some uses enforce an essentialist tendency to speak of values as freestanding entities.As an illustration and explanation of the increasing pervasiveness of this language, both in English-speaking and Spanish-speaking bioethics, we describe the role of “value talk” in recent writings by Diego Gracia.We focus on how his proposal of a methodology for bioethics uses the fact/value dichotomy, and analyse his position in relation to the agenda for the debate on the concepts of health and disease proposed by George Khushf. As a conclusion, we suggest an alternative way of thinking about values in order to overcome the dichotomy.