Can There Be a Global Bioethics?

Can There Be a Global Bioethics? � Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: Wesley Smith was sent an old article from 2001 that focused on personhood theory and the attempt to redefine death, which criticized bioethics for being unduly Western in its outlook. (A great deal of energy in bioethics these days, is dedicated to finding justifications for using some human beings instrumentally.) The author, points out how the Japanese, as one example, view things differently from the Western approach that focuses exclusively on cognitive capacities.