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    This chapter considers several prominent methods in bioethics and evaluates each according to how well they avoid idealizing assumptions and account for the effects of three kinds of positioning of moral agents: within institutions, along axes of social oppression, and as psychologically and culturally constrained human beings. Feminist naturalized moral epistemology is then presented as an antidote for these idealizing assumptions, and a more substantive version of naturalized bioethics is deve…Read more
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    The need for explicit theoretical reflection on cross-cultural bioethics continues to grow as the spread of communication technologies and increased human migration has made interactions between medical professionals and patients from different cultural backgrounds much more common. I claim that this need presents us with the following dilemma. On the one hand, we do not want to operate according to an imperialist ethical framework that denies and silences the legitimacy of cultural values other…Read more