Susi Ferrarello (editor) - Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived-Experience (The International Library of Bioethics, 84)

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As a phenomenologist I found myself in a sort of predicament when I was assigned to teach bioethics a few years ago. Where was the entrance door to this complex building? How could I walk through each of its rooms in such a way that my students would feel at ease in taking this tour with me? What should I take from it that would help us to thrive? What should students learn from a class in bioethics? What is my duty as a teacher of this discipline?

The answers for me rely on lived experience. Even though bioethics is an extremely young discipline, its boundaries expanded exponentially in the past decades at the same pace as the technological changes that revolutionized our society. I find hopeless to try to tell my students what bioethics is tout court. I believe, instead, that it is absolutely fruitful to show them what they could do with it, what kind of questions bioethics could raise, how it could improve our lived experience . This is, also, the main focus of this volume. A fruitful bioethics is the one whose roots are deep in the lived experience . In this book as well, I propose a case by case way of reasoning on the multitude of problems that we have to cope with when we do bioethics, that is, when we want to reflect responsibly on the richness of biological life (). Being phenomenology a discipline rooted in the live-experience, the interaction between phenomenology and bioethics is particularly felicitous and productive.