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The question whether global bioethics is possible is indicative of the specific conditions of post-modernity. It implies not only the fragmentation of contemporary morality along the line that divides secular society from particular moral communities, but also uncertainty about the nature of morality and about the justifiability of its claims. Thus it raises some rather fundamental issues in moral philosophy both at the normative and the metaethical level.
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Becker, G.K. (2002). The Ethics of Prenatal Screening and the Search for Global Bioethics. In: Po-Wah, J.T.L. (eds) Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)Possibility of Global Bioethics. Philosophy of Medicine, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1195-1_7
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