Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality

Is there only one bioethics? Is a global bioethics possible? Or, instead, does one encounter a plurality of bioethical approaches shaped by local cultural and national traditions? Some thirty years ago a field of applied ethics emerged under the rubric `bioethics''. Little thought was given at the time to the possibility that this field bore the imprint of a particular American set of moral commit...