title: Looking backwards, looking forward: hopes for bioethics' next twenty-five years.
abstract: I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways of re-orienting our theoretic tools to guide us in a new direction: (1) adopt an ethics of responsibility; (2) explore the responsibilities of various kinds of actors and relationships among them; (3) expand the types of participants engaged in bioethics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4P9, Canada. ssherwin@dal.ca
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sherwin
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012935:Social Justice