TY  - CHAP
AB  - Since the beginning of the 1980s, we can observe the emergence and proliferation of different processes and institutions of ethical debate throughout Europe and the Western world; these processes and institutions are supposed to inform and improve opinion-building and decision-making processes in the policy field of the biosciences and especially biomedicine. National boards of ethics, ethics commissions, citizen's consultations or conferences have been established throughout; they all have in common the task to debate the ethical aspects of biomedical research and practice, and inform politics as well as the public about the ways of dealing with biomedicine in ‘ethically’ justified ways. Conflicts in the field of biomedicine have increasingly become framed in terms of ethics, and policy makers have to explain and defend their decisions with reference to ethics. The language of ethics has become the major medium for the debate about biomedical issues. This development is accompanied by the emergence of a new cast of professionals: the ‘ethics expert’, who becomes a member of a commission or an advisor to governments or organisations. Bioscientific practice and development seem to be inevitably ethical issues. Consequentially, controversies or conflicts appear to be solved best through ethical deliberations. One can justly speak of an ethics regime1that surrounds, stimulates and penetrates discourses, institutions and practices concerning conflicts and policy making in the issue area of biomedicine.
VL  - 9
SN  - 978-0-7623-1438-6, 978-1-84950-501-7/1057-6290
DO  - 10.1016/S1057-6290(07)09008-0
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-6290(07)09008-0
AU  - Luise Herrmann Svea
AU  - Könninger Sabine
ED  - Barbara Katz Rothman
ED  - Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong
ED  - Rebecca Tiger
PY  - 2007
Y1  - 2007/01/01
TI  - “… But you Cannot Influence the Direction of your Thinking”: Guiding Self-Government in Bioethics Policy Discourse
T2  - Bioethical Issues, Sociological Perspectives
T3  - Advances in Medical Sociology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 205
EP  - 223
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -