Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: By using the term 'ethics' I refer to the philosophical reflection that subjects human behaviour to normative and evaluative assessments 94 and elaborates criteria for the evaluation of moral behaviour. 95 In other words, I shall consider ethics to be a discipline that conducts a methodical reflection of morality, 96 aiming at the development and justification of criteria to be adopted in order to pursue the moral good. 97 As a subject of ethical reflection, morality can be understood as individual morality, formed by moral personal inner convictions that guide the individual's behaviour, as well as a societal morality, consisting in non-legal and non-conventional moral rules of behaviour followed by a spatio-temporally defined community. 98 In both cases there are several moral options: on the one hand, different moral norms are valid in different communities and, on the other hand, every individual has a different conception of the moral good. 99 The same ethical problem may encounter different solutions depending on the ethical perspective that is assumed.Hence, thinking in terms of moral philosophy, ethical concerns in the field of health technologies arise whenever the development of a new health technology implies uncertainty regarding the possibility of using it whilst 94 Düwell, Hübenthal and Werner, Handbuch Ethik (2011) p. 1. 95 Vöneky, Recht, Moral und Ethik (2010) p. 26.96 Spranger, Recht und Bioethik (2010) p. 31.97 According to this definition, moral questions form the object of ethical reflection.Nofurther clarification shall be given here on the difference between the concepts of ethics and morality, which will both appear in the thesis and be employed depending on the context.
Author: Irene Domenici
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Amicus Therapeutics
OpenAlex ID: W4387942580