Global bioethics--myth or reality?

BMC Medical Ethics | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

Abstract

Background: There has been debate on whether a global or unified field of bioethics exists. If bioethics is a unified global field, or at the very least a closely shared way of thinking, then we should expect bioethicists to behave the same way in their academic activities anywhere in the world. This paper investigates whether there is a 'global bioethics' in the sense of a unified academic community.

Methods: To address this question, we study the web-linking patterns of bioethics institutions, the citation patterns of bioethics papers and the ...

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