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Bioethics and cara sui.

Grant Gillett1

  • 1Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
|July 20, 2005
PubMed
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This study explores Foucault's concept of "care of the self" to deepen ethical reasoning beyond simple rules. It offers a nuanced view of subjectivity and responsibility, applicable to bioethics and healthcare.

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Area of Science:

  • * Philosophy of Ethics
  • * Bioethics
  • * Subjectivity Studies

Background:

  • * Foucault's later work emphasizes
  • care of the self
  • as central to ethical inquiry.
  • * Traditional ethics often focus on consequences, harms, benefits, and rights, overlooking self-examination.
  • * This approach moves towards articulating the sense of life animating ethical reasoning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • * To examine Foucault's concept of
  • care of the self
  • in ethical reasoning.
  • * To develop a nuanced understanding of subjectivity and its relation to ethics.
  • * To explore the application of this framework within bioethics and healthcare.
Keywords:
Bioethics and Professional EthicsPhilosophical Approach

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Main Methods:

  • * Drawing on Foucault's post-structuralist philosophy.
  • * Integrating phenomenological insights from Levinas and Heidegger.
  • * Incorporating virtue ethics (Baier) and postmodern approaches to subjectivity.

Main Results:

  • * A conception of the self as negotiable, embodied, provisional, and transformable, rejecting essentialism.
  • * Human responsibility is understood as responsiveness to ethical discourse.
  • * This framework extends bioethics beyond policy to self-interrogation and theoretical foundations of healthcare.

Conclusions:

  • *
  • Care of the self
  • offers a richer ethical framework by focusing on self-articulation.
  • * The approach challenges essentialist views of human beings and morality.
  • * Applying this to bioethics enhances understanding of healthcare ethics and selfhood within clinical contexts.