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Making Sense of Consensus: Responses to Engelhardt, Hester, Kuczewski, Trotter, and Zoloth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2002

JONATHAN D. MORENO
JONATHAN D. MORENO
Affiliation:
Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee
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Abstract

It has been a pleasure to read these papers and to contemplate their importance for what I believe to be a useful and provocative prism though which to view the field of bioethics: the nature of moral consensus. In my own most extended contribution to this literature, Deciding Together, I did not attempt to prescribe so much as to understand the role of moral consensus in the practice of bioethics. At the end of the book, I expressed the hope that it might help trigger an examination of bioethics and moral consensus. Though a few others shared my interest at that time (in particular Tris Engelhardt, for whose early encouragement I remain deeply grateful), with this set of stimulating papers the conversation has finally begun in earnest.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: CONSENSUS IN BIOETHICS: NEGOTIATING THE CHALLENGE OF MORAL PLURALISM
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 61 - 64
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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