The Ethics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach and the case of live uterus transplantation-IVF

This article examines what comes to be identified as important ethical problems and solutions in the media debate of UTx-IVF in Sweden, showing specifically how problems, target groups, goals, benefits, risks and stakes are delineated and positioned. It also demonstrates how  specific assumptions, norms and values are expressed and used to underpin specific positions within this debate, and how certain subjects, desires and risks become shrouded or simply omitted from it. This approach—which we label theEthics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach, inspired by Koch and Stemerding (1994) —allows us to discuss how the identification of something as the problem helps to shape what gets to be described as a solution, and how specific solutions provide frameworks within which problems can be stated and emphasised. We also offer a critical discussion of whether some of these articulati ons and formations should be seen as ethically troubling, and if so, why.
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research