Abstract

KOTTOW, Miguel. MODERN REFLEXIVITY ON BIOETHICS: A NODAL POINT BETWEEN POSITIVISTIC SCIENCE AN BIOETHICAL PRINCIPLISM. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.2, pp.10-19. ISSN 1657-4702.

Bioetics is alternatively seen as a discipline in crisis or an expanding field of academic inquiry, triggering both academic and sociological polemics. In view of its socio-economic disparaties. Latin-American is in dire need of robust deliberation on medical and public health issues. Bioethics is recognized as a transdisciplinary Enterprise, devoid of agreed upon cognitive methods beyond deliberation, and it remains unclear whether ethics is a matter of epistemológical inquiry, some scholars even denying its political or social importance. Globalization (mundialization) and modern secularization (mundanization) require a new approach to ethical questions base on the humanities rather than theological beliefs, in order to fulfill V.R. Potter's hopes for a humane future unimpaired by biotechnological expansion and its consequences. A variety of initiatives have been brought forth to renew the discourse of bioethics, including a move towards biopolitics, or a reorientation towards individual subjectivity. Problems and dilemmas in bioethics are so solidly interwoven with technical, social, economic and political issues, that an approach based on complexity and self-centered reflexivity seem to offer new insights into the socioeconomic, ecological and biotechnological problems the world will be facing within coming decades.

Keywords : Bioethics; Biotechnology; Complexity; Modern reflexivity.

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