caa a22 4500 475841859 CHVBK 20180406123903.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009452219613 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009452219613 Brannigan Michael Center for the Study of Ethics, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Cultural Diversity and the Case Against Ethical Relativism [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Brannigan] The movement to respect culturaldiversity, known as multiculturalism, poses a dauntingchallenge to healthcare ethics. Can we construct adefensible passage from the fact of culturaldifferences to any claims regarding morality? Or doesmulticulturalism lead to ethical relativism? Macklinargues that, in view of a leading distinction betweenuniversalism in ethics and moral absolutism, the onlyreasonable passage avoids both absolutism andrelativism. She presents a strong case againstethical relativism and its pernicious consequences forcross-cultural issues in healthcare. She alsoprovides sound criteria for the assessment of aculture's moral progress. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 absolutism nationallicence autonomy nationallicence cross-cultural ethics nationallicence cross-cultural healthcare nationallicence cultural diversity nationallicence ethical universals nationallicence human rights nationallicence informed consent nationallicence moral progress nationallicence multiculturalism nationallicence postmodernism nationallicence principles nationallicence relativism nationallicence Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/3(2000-09-01), 321-327 1065-3058 8:3<321 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009452219613 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009452219613 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brannigan Michael Center for the Study of Ethics, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/3(2000-09-01), 321-327 1065-3058 8:3<321 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer