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This entry examines the ethical dimension of cultural diversity and its challenges in relation to disagreements about social policy in medicine and biotechnology. It presents key normative ideas concerning social conflicts arising from cultural diversity and three approaches to culture-based reasons in public deliberation of bioethical issues: exclusive, inclusive, and critical-inclusive. This entry extracted sections from my previously published article The Place of Culture-Based Reasons in Public Debates (Alvarez A, Human Affairs 24(2):232–247, 2014).
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Macklin, R. (2014). Respect for cultural diversity and pluralism. In H. A. M. J. ten Have & B. Gordijn (Eds.), Handbook of global bioethics (pp. 153–167). Dordrecht: Springer.
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This entry was written while I was employed as researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology for the project “Applied Ethics: Technology and Governance of Health and Natural Resources” funded by the Research Council of Norway (217426). I thank the Institute For Research In Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, for giving me permission to use my previously published paper in the journal Human Affairs.
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Alvarez, A.A. (2014). Cultural Diversity. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_128-1
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