A New Field of Bioethics?

Holly Fernandez Lynch Bioethics, Holly Fernandez Lynch

What do you think?  Is queer bioethics a new academic discipline?  If so, is it one we can hope not to need at some point in the future as tolerance increases, etc.?

Holly Fernandez Lynch

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, is the John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education, helping to lead the university’s first online master’s degree, the Master of Health Care Innovation, and other online offerings.

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  1. I’m more interested in a broader, more epistemically and ethically pluralistic conception of what makes for “bioethics” along the lines, for example, outlined by Grant R. Gillett, a neurosurgeon and professor of medical ethics, in his book Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic Reflections (2004).

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