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Bioethics and Public Reason: A Report on Ethics and Public Discourse in Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

ADELA CORTINA
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One of the essential tasks of bioethics in morally pluralistic societies consists of fostering a public use of reason in its field of competence. This is the fundamental thesis of the present work. To deal with it I will try to answer two crucial questions: (a) What is moral pluralism and why does it demand fostering the use of public reason in moral issues in the sphere of bioethics and (b) What are the laboratories of bioethics in a pluralistic society?

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Special Section: The Many Voices of Spanish Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 241 - 250
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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