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dc.contributor.authorHens, Kristien
dc.contributor.otherStadlbauer, Christina
dc.contributor.otherVandeput, Bart H.M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-14T15:49:25Z
dc.date.available2022-12-14T15:49:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60222
dc.description.abstractIn this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the philosopher. As well as ethical, their role is conceptual: they can improve the quality and coherence of scientific research by ensuring that particular concepts are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. Hens argues that chance and uncertainty play a central part in bioethics, but that these qualities can be in tension with the attempt to establish a given theory as scientific knowledge: in describing organisms and practices, in a sense we create the world. Hens contends that this is necessarily an ethical activity. Examining genetic research, biomedical ethics, autism research and the concept of risk, Hens illustrates that there is no ‘universal’ or ‘neutral’ state of scientific and clinical knowledge, and that attending to the situatedness of individual experience is essential to understand the world around us, to know its (and our) limitations, and to forge an ethical future. Chance Encounters is aimed at a broad audience of researchers in bioethics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, as well as biomedical and environmental scientists. It will also be relevant to policymakers, and the artwork by Christina Stadlbauer and Bartaku will be of interest to artists and writers working at the intersection of art and science.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFV Ethical issues and debatesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFV Ethical issues and debates::JBFV5 Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developmentsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKJ Neurology and clinical neurophysiology::MKJA Autism and Asperger’s Syndromeen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on societyen_US
dc.subject.otherbioethics;philosophy of biology;role of the philosopher;scientific research;improve the quality and coherence;researchen_US
dc.titleChance Encountersen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Bioethics for a Damaged Planeten_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0320en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8ben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800648494en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800648500en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800648524en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800648531en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800648548en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800648555en_US
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages266en_US
oapen.place.publicationCambridgeen_US


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