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KMID : 1172020090100010049
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2009 Volume.10 No. 1 p.49 ~ p.66
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Moral Governance : A Comparative Discourse Analysis of the U. S. Governmental Bioethics Commissions Regarding Human Embryo Research
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Kim Eun-Sung
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Abstract
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This study examines the discourses of public bioethics generated by three U.S. governmental bioethics commissions associated with human embryo and stem cell research. First, this study analyzes the relationship between science and moral governance by comparing a technocratic approach and a pluralist approach to the moral status of an embryo. Second, this study explores the additional style of moral governance by analyzing four types of social justice ― procedural justice, distributive justice, recognition justice, and productive justice ― related to the impacts and processes of human embryo and stem cell research. The results of this study are as follows: 1) the moral decision-making of the Human Embryo Research Panel was built on the technocratic approach, while the National Bioethics Advisory Commission made use of the pluralist approach. In spite of depending on the technocratic approach, the President’s Council on Bioethics employed a post-modern style of moral governance by rejecting an artificial consensus among a diversity of positions on the moral status of an embryo. 2) all of the three commissions took procedural justice into account, but the Human Embryo Research Panel failed to deal with distributive justice issue. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission indicated the importance of distributive justice, while the President’s Council on Bioethics was more vocal on the discussion of productive justice. None of the three commissions touched on recognition justice issue.
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KEYWORD
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Public Bioethics, Human Embryo Research, Decision-making, Social Justice
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