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Pages 79-95 (July - December 2015)
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Vol. 1. Issue 2.
Pages 79-95 (July - December 2015)
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Epistemology of bioethics in the making: from historical context to conceptual plurality and anticipation
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Mylène Botbol-Baum
Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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This paper addresses the epistemological reasons for bioethics emerging as a utopian pluralism. I evaluate first the possibility and the conditions of a unifying discourse around a shared epistemology, through several methodological approaches that marked the discipline.

Reviewing the history of bioethics, I observe that the utopia has been reduced to building governance on strategic biopolitical consensus, minimizing conflicting subjective rights. I conclude that bioethics is still in the making and that its new role is to anticipate the consequences of techno-sciences and the anthropological changes they provoke.

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Bioethics history
Applied epistemology
Plasticity
Anticipation
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Este artículo trata sobre las razones epistemológicas por las que la bioética emerge como un pluralismo utópico. En primer lugar, evalúo la posibilidad y las condiciones de un discurso unificador en torno a una epistemología compartida, a través de diversos enfoques metodológicos que marcaron a esta disciplina.

A raíz de una revisión de la historia de la bioética, observé que la utopía se ha reducido a construir un gobierno del consenso biopolítico estratégico, minimizando los derechos subjetivos que entren en conflicto con él. Concluyo que la bioética es una disciplina aún en desarrollo y que su nueva función es anticiparse a las consecuencias de las tecnociencias y los cambios antropológicos que estas desencadenan.

Palabras clave:
Historia de la bioética
Epistemología aplicada
Plasticidad
Anticipación
Capacidades

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