TRANSCULTURAL DISCUSSION IN BIOETHICS DRAWN FROM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN CHINA: BUILDING UP A THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR FURTHER RESEARCH COOPERATION

Abstract

COOPERATION
My article discusses bioethics in transcultural context and builds on an
experience of conducting research in China in partnership with Chinese
scholars and institutions. Key points are about the creation of ethical
committees and their prerogatives, the regulation of experimenting in human
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and animal, and of donating and transplanting organs. Ethical issues are
approached according to an anthropological reading. Three transversal lines for
further research are suggested: global/local ethical governance applied to
research ethics; implications of transnationalizing and delocalizing research
practices with regards to governance; theoretical positioning – conceptual
pluralism versus pragmatic pluralism – following actual confrontation to
transcultural variations in research ethics. Moreover, this work claims for
conceptualizing and implementing an ethics in context while assessing
intangible (non-relative) principles based on knowledge production and a global
patrimony