Choice, Rights, and Virtue

Prenatal Testing and Styles of Moral Reasoning in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2288643
AutoresR Fitzgerald (0000-0002-6042-8581), Ruth P Fitzgerald (Department of Anthropology and Archaeology University of Otago), Michael Legge (0000-0002-1446-4338, Department of Biochemistry University of Otago), Julie Park (0000-0003-2763-5690, University of Auckland)
Ano2015
Volume29
Fascículo3
Páginas400-417
Data de publicação2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12217
PMID25940875
OpenAlexW2112954976
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas19

Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, modifying a dominant, state-supported, principal-based bioethics framework. The styles of moral reasoning that we identify pivot on an aspirational cultural ideal of the provision of choice to citizens, which is taken as an appropriate position from which to regulate selective reproductive technologies

Aotearoa · Epistemology · Moral reasoning · Sociology · Virtue · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology