Bioethics and the value of disagreement
Michael J Parker · 2024
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Michael Parker presents an essay, published in 2025, on how bioethics should handle deep moral disagreement. Its scholars work amid intense value conflict and sharp division, from end-of-life care to new biotech. Parker argues the field is well placed to help society argue well, but only if it moves beyond its usual methods. He proposes adversarial cooperation: structured work between opponents that fuses the rigor of adversarial collaboration in science with the cultural breadth of cooperation across difference in the humanities.
Such work faces real hurdles: misinformation, the pull between fixed values and fair process, and the need to decide while disagreement continues. Parker casts the bioethicist as a facilitator of trustworthy, inclusive deliberation, skilled in mediation and the arts as well as philosophy. Training and practice, he says, must change to match, with humility and voices too often left out at the center.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michael J Parker |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |