The Rediscovery of Bioethics

Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Marking 25 years since its founding, the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) presents the key insights of an international symposium in this edited volume. As disruptive biotechnologies – such as genome editing or AI-based synthetic biology – and ecological crises reshape our world, normative guidance is more vital than ever. The contributors to this collection explore how bioethics, as a philosophically informed and interdisciplinary practice, can respond to ethical challenges in medicine, agriculture, and beyond. With contributions from leading scholars, it charts future directions for bioethics. Join us on a journey to rediscover bioethics.

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ISBN:
978-3-8376-7892-5 (softcover)
978-3-8394-2821-4 (e-book)

Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld

Publication year: 2025

Pages: 222

Language: English

Contents

Preface
The Rediscovery of Bioethics – Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Dirk Lanzerath, Aurélie Halsband

Implementing Bioethics

The Rediscovery of Bioethics
From an Ethics of Life Science to an Ethics of Life
Dirk Lanzerath

Reference and Discourse
On the Foundation and Development of the DRZE
Ludger Honnefelder

Connecting Principles to Cases
Reflections on Specification and Balancing
James F. Childress

Bioethics as Practical Reasoning
On the Question of Method
Roman Wagner

Bioethics in China
Developments and Future Outlook
Wei Zhu

Impactful Bioethics

A Path Forward – and Outward
Repositioning Bioethics to Face Future Challenges
Vardit Ravitsky

Bioethics, Ethics, and Policy
David Archard

Bioethics, Conflict, and Law
Dieter Sturma

Biopolitics with Bioethics
Critical Companions
Sarah Cunningham-Burley

Inclusive Bioethics

Participation and Bioethics
The Inserm Ethics Committee (IEC) Perspective
Hervé Chneiweiss

Bioethics in Africa
A Contextually Enlightened Analysis of Three Cases
Nancy S. Jecker, Caesar Atuire

Pluralism as a Moral Challenge
Laura Palazzani

Shaping the Future?
Emerging Technologies, Value Shifts, and Bioethics
Aurélie Halsband

Bioethics in the Anthropocene
Physicians’ Duties, Patient Welfare, and Climate Protection
Marius Bartmann