Interdisciplinary Bioethics on the Crossroad of Research Methods
Abstract
The body of theoretical knowledge under the name of Bioethics is unquestionably interdisciplinary but the methods used to produce new knowledge in the area are rooted in monodisciplinary traditions. This may become the greatest epistemological challenge to bioethics in the present century. Scientists have not yet figured out or adapted an interdisciplinary research method for bioethics. Thus, scholars from the various disciplines see their own traditional methodology as the preferable one. The wonder is for how long the methods selection will reduces Bioethics research into single discipline concept. In addition, contentment with the application of the existing methods will dismiss the need for creative ideas on new interdisciplinary methods in bioethics