TY  - JOUR
AU  - Heinrichs, Jan-Hendrik
TI  - The case for biotechnological exceptionalism
JO  - Medicine, health care and philosophy
VL  - 24
IS  - 0
SN  - 1572-8633
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
M1  - FZJ-2021-02705
SP  - 659–666
PY  - 2021
AB  - Do biomedical interventions raise special moral concerns? A rising number of prominent authors claim that at least in the case of biomedical enhancement they do not. Treating biomedical enhancements different from non-biomedical ones, they claim, amounts to unjustified biomedical exceptionalism. This article vindicates the familiar thesis that biomedical enhancement raises specific concerns. Taking a close look at the argumentative strategy against biomedical exceptionalism and provides counterexamples showing that the biomedical mode of interventions raises concerns not relevant otherwise. In particular, biomedical interventions throughout raise concerns of informed consent, which only rarely turn up in comparable non-biomedical interventions.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 34146227
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000663501900002
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s11019-021-10032-5
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/893353
ER  -