Narrativity in Bioethics

Abstract

"During the last decade, bioethics developed in Turkey according to information-transfer from the West, mainly from the Anglo-Saxon references. Hence, the trends in ethical reasoning was very similar to those in modern western societies. As time goes by, the developments in the field of bioethics show us that we are getting closer to deontology, which has already been there for a long time. Declarations, codes and ethics committees appear to be more important than ethical reflections. The processes which require ethical reflection in biomedical ethics have become a bureaucratic process, which has to be fulfilled, signed and approved. According to thes development we could say that prescriptive bioethics gained the dominance "