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Title: What empirical research can do for bioethics
Author/Creator: Hoffmaster, Barry; Hooker, Cliff
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: That sound moral decision-making has to be grounded in a solid understanding of facts has long been a central tenet of bioethics. In addition, that there is a sharp distinction between facts and values, between ‘is’ and ‘ought’, and a concomitant sharp division of labor between empirical inquiries that establish facts and normative inquiries that establish values and norms has long been a central tenet of what Kon (2009) calls the “classical philosophical methods” that comprise the “ethical framework” of bioethics.
Relation: American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 9, Issue 6, p. 72-74
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265160902893940
Date: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Keyword(s): bioethics; empirical research; decision-making; ethical design; hospitals
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/925186
Identifier: ISSN:1526-5161

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