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The relationship between speculation and translation in bioethics: methods and methodologies
- Abstract:
- There are increasing pressures for bioethics to emphasise ‘translation’. Against this backdrop, we defend ‘speculative bioethics’. We explore speculation as an important tool and line of bioethical inquiry. Further, we examine the relationship between speculation and translational bioethics and posit that speculation can support translational work. First, speculative research might be conducted as ethical analysis of contemporary issues through a new lens, in which case it supports translational work. Second, speculation might be a first step prior to translational work on a topic. Finally, speculative bioethics might constitute different content altogether, without translational objectives. For each conception of speculative bioethics, important methodological aspects determine whether it constitutes good bioethics research. We conclude that whether speculative bioethics is compatible with translational bioethics—and to what extent—depends on whether it is being employed as tool or content. Applying standards of impact uniformly across bioethics may inappropriately limit speculative bioethics.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s40592-023-00181-z
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/029chgv08
- Grant:
- 221719/Z/20/Z
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- Monash Bioethics Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1-19
- Publication date:
- 2023-09-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-08-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1836-6716
- ISSN:
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1321-2753
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1518081
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pubs:1518081
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2023-08-31
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- Copyright holder:
- Johnson and Romanis
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- ©2023 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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