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As a field of inquiry, bioethics covets an international political stage. Bioethics lays claim to a universal account of proper moral deportment, including the foundations of law and public policy, as well as the moral authority for national and international institutions to guarantee uniformity of practice. The challenge, as Kazumasa Hoshino rightly notes, is that religious and cultural moral diversity is very real. The national and international political landscape compasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations, and commitments. Policy must be created to span a diverse set of individuals, cultures, and communities. Yet, such policy is never neutral. It inevitably promotes the social and moral acceptance of certain practices, endorsing particular moral values and metaphysical understandings over others. Political struggles regard both the form and content of what will become the prevailing medical, moral, and social ethos.
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Cherry, M.J. (2002). Coveting an International Bioethics: Universal Aspirations and False Promises. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Rasmussen, L.M. (eds) Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0902-6_14
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