title: What's the point of philosophical bioethics?
abstract: Many people working in bioethics take pride in the subject's embrace of a wide range of disciplines. This invites questions of what in particular is added by each. In this paper, I focus on the role of philosophy within the field: what, if anything, is its unique contribution to bioethics? I sketch out a claim that philosophy is central to bioethics because of its particular analytic abilities, and defend its place within bioethics from a range of sceptical attacks.
authors.affiliation: CSEP/iSEI/School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. iain.brassington@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Brassington
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy