Misconceiving “Neutrality” in Bioethics: Rejoinder to “Bioethics and the Myth of Neutrality”

Race, Power, and COVID-19: A Call for Advocacy within Bioethics

“…If the answer to these questions is yes, then it becomes our responsibility as bioethicists to acknowledge the interconnected web of attachments that perpetuate displacement, injustice, and oppression. Such an undertaking is a not a value-neutral task (Parker 2019) and, in part, involves undoing the false dichotomy between the neutrality of academic bioethical thinking and the radicalism associated with political change (Scully 2019). This endeavor will make it clear that bioethics is embedded within the same power relationships that are mirrored throughout health, research and politics and will require us to ask who holds power and why in order to begin to rectify the displacements that have been perpetuated.…”

Dementia: Unwelcome change has arrived and we are not ready!

“…Malcolm Parker follows on about the issue of bioethical neutrality, and the concerns that activism needs to be differentiated from scholarship in order to preserve the authority of the discipline, and normative codes that flow from it (Parker 2019).…”