Psychology

Toward critical bioethics studies: Black feminist insights for a field "reckoning" with anti-black racism

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In this essay, I draw on the ethical theory of state consequentialism to advance the argument that understanding the ethics that the United States practices, rather than focusing on what it preaches, offers a more dynamic path for informing and transforming a field seeking to reckon with anti-Black racism. With a specific focus on justice, I show how state consequentialism provides a potential starting point for understanding how the nation prioritizes its own social, political, and economic interests to the detriment of the very principles that are at the heart of bioethics.

Publication Title

The Hastings Center report

Publication Date

2022

Volume

52

Issue

S1

First Page

S57

Last Page

S59

ISSN

1552-146X

DOI

10.1002/hast.1372

Keywords

anti-Black racism, antiracism, bioethics, justice, racial reckoning, state consequentialism

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