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Vulnerability in practice: Peeling back the layers, avoiding triggers, and preventing cascading effects.

Elizabeth Victor¹, Florencia Luna², Laura Guidry-Grimes³

¹Department of Philosophy, William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, USA.

|April 28, 2022

Summary

Bioethicist Florencia Luna offers a new layered approach to vulnerability, moving beyond inherent traits. This framework analyzes external triggers and cascading effects, enhancing ethical considerations in healthcare and research.

Keywords:

prisoner research psychiatric ethics public health ethics research ethics transgender healthcare vulnerability

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Area of Science:

Bioethics
Public Health Ethics
Research Ethics

Background:

Traditional bioethics views vulnerability as an inherent individual or group trait requiring special protections.
Florencia Luna challenges this by proposing a more nuanced understanding of vulnerability.

Purpose of the Study:

To outline Florencia Luna's layered approach to vulnerability.
To introduce Luna's concepts of external triggers and cascading effects in vulnerability.
To demonstrate the utility of Luna's framework in diverse ethical contexts.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis of vulnerability in bioethics.
Application of Luna's layered vulnerability model.
Case study analysis using vignettes from healthcare, psychiatric care, and prisoner research.

Main Results:

Luna's layered approach provides a dynamic framework for understanding vulnerability.
External conditions and cascading effects are identified as crucial factors influencing vulnerability.
The model effectively elucidates moral issues in diverse clinical and research settings.

Conclusions:

Luna's reconceptualization of vulnerability offers a more comprehensive ethical analysis.
The framework is applicable to vulnerable populations in healthcare and research.
This approach enhances ethical decision-making by considering contextual factors.