A Vulnerability/Solidarity Framework for a Global Ethic: Historical & Contemporary Applications
Revista Romana de Bioetica 13, no. 1; 2015: 44-68.
25 Pages Posted: 19 Oct 2015 Last revised: 24 Oct 2015
Date Written: March 11, 2015
Abstract
Although bioethics seeks to address the basic problems of human flourishing, the articulation of a consensus moral framework remains almost elusive due to charges including intellectual hegemony, cultural domination and moral imperialism. This paper explores a phenomenological approach in relation to developing a global ethical framework. It fashions a vulnerability/solidarity framework drawing on trans-geographical narratives of domestic and trans-Atlantic slavery in West Africa as well as the Euro-American evolution of the human rights rhetoric and praxis. Applying this to the contemporary issue of medical brain drain, the paper shows how such a framework may help engage the local and global dimensions of bioethical issues.
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