On the Shoulders of Giants: A Reckoning with Social Justice. (26th April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bogdan‐Lovis, Elizabeth; Kelly‐Blake, Karen; Jiang, Wendy
• Editors: Fletcher, Faith E.; Ray, Keisha S.; Brown, Virginia A.; Smith, Patrick T.
• Is Part Of: Hastings Center report. Volume 52(2022)Supplement 1
• Page Start: S72
• Page End: S78
• Publication Date: 2022-04-26
• Subjects: Black bioethicists -- anti‐Black racism -- social justice -- intergenerational knowledge -- Black bioethics; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; Bioethics -- Periodicals; 174.205
• DOI: 10.1002/hast.1377
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0093-0334

Abstract

Abstract: As a field, bioethics has failed to adequately change in a direction that pursues and addresses continually shifting contemporary social problems, in particular, anti‐Black racism. In this essay, we draw from interviews with four senior Black scholars—Anita L. Allen, Claretta Y. Dupree, Patricia A. King, and Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr.—to learn from their experiences in this field dominated by White‐majority thought and to consider thematically how best to recalibrate bioethics to imagine a braver, broader, and better bioethics, one that centers social justice and is equipped to work against anti‐Black racism.