Bioethics: Ethico-Centric Interdisciplinarity

Abstract

When scholars over the past forty years have proposed definitions of ‘bioethics,’ they have usually addressed the question in terms of methodology:1 do we start with an analytical framework of abstract principles (Beauchamp and Childress),2 or the particularities of individual cases (John Arras, Jonsen and Toulmin);3 do we follow a neo-Kantian method (Alan Donagan),4 a more explicitly Christian approach,5 a narrative-based approach,6 a utilitarian,7 or