Deliberative Bioethics. Why Codes of Conduct Should be Considered outside the Scope of Ethics

FORMAT | Presented paper

LANGUAGE |English

HOW TO CITE| SANDU, Antonio. (2013). Deliberative Bioethics. Why Codes of Conduct Should be Considered outside the Scope of Ethics. Prezentată la International Scientific Conference Tradition an Reform Social Reconstruction of Europe, Second Edition, November 7-8, 2013, Bucharest.

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ABSTRACT

A number of ethicists, including Bernard Reber, demonstrate the impact of deliberative and participatory approach in evaluating ethics policies. In his work “Towards Participative Bioethical Assessment”, presented at WCP 2013 Athens, the author presents a series of ethical deliberation strategies intended to replace the implementation of Commune Morality, based on principlism, in taking decisions regarding on bioethical issues with deliberative consensus reached. Consensualist techniques aimed at removing regulatory systems in ethical practices through deliberative consensus practice.
Consensualist techniques aimed at removing regulatory systems in ethical practices through practice deliberative consensus. Starting from Reber’s views, we propose to distinguish between ethical code – which aims desirable and ethical standards that are based on ethical values -, deontological codes -as ethical self-regulatory instruments of minimalist type-, and codes of conduct – that govern desirable behavior and that we consider to be outside the area of ethics. Codes of conduct are in general administrative, regulatory and sanctioning type, and therefore are not subject to ethical expertise.

KEYWORDS:

deliberative bioethics; codes of conduct; ethics; Consensualist techniques