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Chapter 27 - Interphilosophies Dialogue

Creating a Paradigm for Global Health Ethics*

from Section 5 - The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Solomon Benatar ,
Ibrahim Daibes  and
Sandra Tomsons
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

The dominant bioethical paradigm that provides the context for research ethics discourse has evolved within Western philosophy’s powerful normative framework and is built on a relationship model that explains and underpins the obligations doctors have to their patients. In this one-to-one relationship, the doctor is claimed to have primary duties to do no harm to patients and to respect patients’ rights. Employing the values of liberal individualism currently dominant in Western civilization, this model provides the starting point for understanding ethical research practice. Hence, researchers, like doctors, have obligations to do no harm to subjects and to respect their rights within the dominant conception of what these rights are or should be.

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Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 345 - 357
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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