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It is becoming increasingly difficult to find diehards who will flatly assert that bioethics and social science have nothing to contribute to (and learn from) one another. The rigid separation of facts and values once enshrined in academic discourse by the influence of logical positivism and Kantian formalism is now untenable. Fluid boundaries and blurred genres are now the order of the day throughout the humanities and the social sciences. Bioethics — as well as other areas of “applied” or “practical” ethics — operates at the heart of this ongoing reconfiguration of knowledge. In bioethics, normative and descriptive inquiry necessarily command equal time and attention, although this dual focus is naturally quite difficult to sustain.
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Jennings, B. (1990). Ethics and Ethnography in Neonatal Intensive Care. In: Weisz, G. (eds) Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1930-3_14
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