2012-05-28
18 分钟This is bioethics bytes with me, David.
Edmonds, and me, Nigel Warburton.
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Radically new techniques are opening up exciting possibilities for those working in healthcare.
For psychiatrists, doctors, surgeons, the option to clone human beings.
To give just one example, who should determine what is allowed and what prohibited?
And what sort of consent should doctors elicit from patients before treatment?
Is the trend towards detailed consent forms helpful, or should we trust doctors to make good decisions for us?
The philosopher Honora O'Neill, formerly principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, has written extensively on the issue of trust.
Trust is vital in most areas of human interaction, but nowhere more so than in health and medicine.
Honora O'Neill, welcome to bioethics bites.
Hello.
I'm very glad to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is trust.
You've spent a lot of time thinking about trust and mistrust, or possibly distrustful, in the areas of media, ethics and medicine particularly.
We want to look at it in the area of bioethics.
But could you say something general about trust?
I think the thing that came to interest me about trust is that there seems to me to have been a very great change in the way we discuss it in the last 15 years.