TY - JOUR AU - Caplan, Arthur L. AB - SYMPOSIUM Democratic Pr Facts ofessionalism:Alone Will Not Sharing Suffice Afor uthority in CiBioethics vic Life Ar Alberthur t WL. . Caplan Dzur When you get old enough as a practitioner in any field young political, media and policy debate. What bioethics needs, he people seek your advice about what they should do if they want argued, is a beef ing up of the shabby empirical foundation it now to do what you do. Given that my age seems to be increasing relies upon for its normative and policy claims. exponentially, this has been happening to me with increasing The onl y way for bioethics to flourish, to paraphrase Emanuel’s frequency. Undergraduates, high school students, medical stu- key contention, is if bioethicists spend less time in public places, dents, those pursuing degrees in law and nursing and even those more time mastering quantitative methods and publishing empir- interested in a mid-career change have been asking me what they ically grounded research on topics such as informed consent and need to do if they want to pursue a career in bioethics. surrogate decision-making at the end-of-life in peer-reviewed I have thought about their question quite a bit. I have come to TI - Facts Alone Will Not Suffice for Bioethics JF - The Good Society DA - 2010-07-22 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/penn-state-university-press/facts-alone-will-not-suffice-for-bioethics-dWhYXIRoSv SP - 16 EP - 17 VL - 19 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -