Lecture “What is the Role of Virtue in Good Medicine?”
Biomedical ethics has found itself entrenched in two increasingly divisive traditions — that of biopolitics and that of bioethics — in which some emphasize the social and political implications of medical practice while others emphasize its ethical implications. In this presentation, I will argue that in many, perhaps most, circumstances we should prioritize investigation into the ethical implications because prioritizing ethical implications allows for a more accurate and comprehensive approach to medical ethics and (policy) reform. To demonstrate this point, I will apply it to the issue of racism in healthcare. An upshot of my argument is that, when coupled with certain ethical frameworks, it foregrounds individual responsibility without precluding social criticism of structures.
Ian Peebles is the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and a member of the Princeton Precision Health Initiative at Princeton University. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, while also studying social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience at Penn’s Center for Neuroscience and Society. Dr. Peebles specializes in ethics, bio/neuroethics, and the philosophy of race.
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Time: 1:00-2:00 pm EST
Free!
