Op-Ed: From consensus to plurality: the negotiated compromise and public consultations

July 26, 2007

The University College London’s Law and Bioethics colloquium, which took place in London at the beginning of July, gave me the impression that a silent revolution is taking place in bioethical discourse (1). The goalposts in bioethics may be shifting from an emphasis on trying to build a moral consensus to establishing an ethical framework that respects, and indeed upholds, plurality of opinion and belief. (BioNews)