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Bioethics as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise: Where Does Ethics Fit in the Mosaic of Disciplines? (p. 1)

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.

Center for Clinical Bioethics

Georgetown University, Washigton, DC.

Introduction

Bioethics is an emergent universe of moral discourse barely a quarter of a century old. Yet, even as it grows in influence, its identity, limits, and scope as a field of inquiry are increasingly debated [31, [6], [17], [62], [751. Precisely what disciplines and modes of inquiry should characterize this new field? How much of "bioethics" is biology, how much is ethics, and how much is in the domain of the humanities or social sciences?

How do the many disciplines that now claim a role in moral deliberation relate to each other? Where does philosophical ethics fit in the expansive visions of bioethics that are now fashionable?

Is it merely one discipline among many, or can it make some claim to the role of primus inter pares? If bioethics is, indeed, an interdisciplinary exercise, how inclusive and how diversified should bioethics be? How much of bioethics should be ethics?

These questions seem particularly appropriate at this time and in this symposium which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Spicker and Engelhardt series in Philosophy and Medicine.

The volume that initiated this impressive scholarly collation was the product of a conference at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston under the aegis of the Institute for the Medical Humanities which is sponsoring today`s conference as well.

That institute has nurtured some of today`s preeminent leaders and scholars in bioethics. It continues to be distinctive in the breadth of disciplines it brings together to examine the ethical and value questions pertinent to medicine, the health professions, and health care.

This same breadth of approach characterizes the interests, scholarly work, and philanthropy of Dr. John

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