Ethics Expertise and Public Credibility

A Case Study of the Ethical Principle of Justice

Bibliographic Data

ID5337963
AuthorsYoshio Nukaga (Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume41
Issue4
Pages709-731
Publication date2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243915624144
OpenAlexW2336306092
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited25

In recent years, scholars in science and technology studies (STS) have examined the advice that experts make for the governance of biomedicine. This STS scholarship, however, has not yet explained how the credibility of ethics expertise in public bioethics is produced from particular conditions and extended to different settings. This article describes how a bioethics commission created the ethical principle of justice and examines how the ethics expertise established public credibility on the justice principle. The findings suggest that the principle of justice was first explored as the diverse concepts of "equality" with reference to the review of fetal research, redefined as "fairness" or "desert" from theoretical viewpoints, and then circulated as a standard framework in local settings. The credibility of ethics expertise, based on the coproduction of material and moral orders, was made possible by reaching common ground among different data, principles, and background theories

Bioethics · Coproduction · Corporate governance · Credibility · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Information ethics · Meta-ethics · Political science · Public relations · Public trust · Research ethics · Scholarship · Sociology · Viewpoints · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Law

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