Religious Ethics and Public Policy: On Doing Public Bioethics

In response to the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) editors' request for reflections on “how religious ethicists have interacted with, and ought to interact with, public policy decision makers,” this essay focuses on doing religious ethics in the context of doing public bioethics, especially t...

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Published in:Journal of religious ethics
Main Author: Childress, James F. 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
In: Journal of religious ethics
Further subjects:B Organ Transplant
B Public Policy
B Bioethics
B human stem cell research
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Summary:In response to the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) editors' request for reflections on “how religious ethicists have interacted with, and ought to interact with, public policy decision makers,” this essay focuses on doing religious ethics in the context of doing public bioethics, especially through participating in public bioethics bodies (PBBs) established to provide advice to public policymakers in what might be called “mediated advocacy.” Drawing heavily on the author's experience as a member of and a consultant to several PBBs, it features case studies of PBBs deliberating about and recommending public policies to address the scarcity of postmortem organs for transplantation, the equitable allocation of COVID-19 vaccine, cloning humans, and human embryonic stem cell research.
ISSN:1467-9795
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12440