caa a22 4500 605475326 CHVBK 20210128100351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10516-014-9250-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10516-014-9250-y Marques Tatiana Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028, Lisbon, Portugal aut Beyond Cultural Myopia: the Challenge of the Bioethical Imagination [Elektronische Daten] [Tatiana Marques] The consolidation of the interdisciplinary field of bioethics in Europe and in the United States was accompanied by harsh criticisms by the social sciences; criticisms that have endured and been reshaped from the late twentieth century until the present. This article begins with a critical discussion of the myopia detected in a bioethical thought that has systematically disregarded its origins, both cultural (traditions) and social (beliefs, values and norms). I claim that this deficit could be rectified if social scientists, in general, and sociologists, in particular, were to move away from the periphery, which they still occupy today, and take up a central position in the area of bioethics. In order to analyze the distant and controversial relationship between the social sciences and bioethics, I proceed to an analysis of their various approaches, respectively guided by descriptive and normative ethics. The specific intersection of sociologists with bioethical thought will be scrutinized, in accordance with an analytical continuum that illustrates an evolution from a collaborative position (sociology in bioethics) to a free and independent position (sociology of bioethics) adopted by the social scientists. The article concludes by presenting a suggestion regarding the integration of the sociological imagination in the processes of ethical deliberation on the moral problems that emerge in biomedical research and clinical practice. In this context, further epistemological reflection is invited regarding the influence of socio-cultural sources of morality relating to the manner in which such problems have been challenged by the bioethical imagination. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Bioethics nationallicence Medical ethics nationallicence Social sciences nationallicence Sociological imagination nationallicence Sociology of bioethics nationallicence Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/2(2015-06-01), 189-203 1122-1151 25:2<189 2015 25 10516 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9250-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9250-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marques Tatiana Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028, Lisbon, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/2(2015-06-01), 189-203 1122-1151 25:2<189 2015 25 10516