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KMID : 1172020200210020001
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2020 Volume.21 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.15
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Academic Tasks of the Korean Bioethics
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Choi Kyung-Suk
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Abstract
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Korean bioethics has to study responses to ethical, legal, and social issues raised neuroscience and technology, data science and technology, nano science and technology like ELSI research. In addition, Korean bioethics needs to focus on fundamental issues like the relevance of core ethical notions with neural activities, the possibility of commercial use of information, citizens’ participation in the investment and allocation of public fund for scientific research. The traditional topics of bioethics tends to be extended into the whole areas of our life by the development of scientific technology and its fusion beyond the area of medicine and bio-sciences. Thus, the discourse bioethics has developed has a responsibility to deal with new issues in the comprehensive scope of our life. Bioethics developed in the U.S.A. has the limitation in that it has gave weight to policies. However, the study of life is considered to be a main topic of bioethics in the East Asia where “bio” in “bioethics” has been thought to refer to “life” rather than “biology.” Thus, bioethics in the East Asia is required to do interdisciplinary research on fundamental concepts in a human life like reproduction, family, healthy life, aging, and death that dominate a human life as well as the status of embryo or fetus. Further, Korean bioethics struggles with the conflicts between the Western and the Eastern values and between the old and the new. Thus it has to contribute to an international bioethical discourses by providing a perspective the Western loses. Korean bioethics has focused on policy issues related to legislation. But it has to study the balance between the role of law and that of ethics, and to boost the research related to communication for social consensus, even for policy-making.
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KEYWORD
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Korean bioethics, American bioethics, ELSI, fundamental concepts in life, social consensus
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