Calsado, Chuckie Fer A;
(2023)
Towards a decolonized critical bioethics:
Class and the ethics of resistance in the Philippines.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This research explores the role of class in the development of a decolonized critical bioethics. Through data that were collected in the Philippines, this research posits that bioethics and bioethics education are rooted in people’s material conditions; central to this is the interplay of the dominant mode of production and superstructure in Filipino society. Using critical thematic analysis and a counterstory approach, data sets from four sources were collected and analyzed. These are: (1) Presidential addresses on the Philippine government’s COVID response, representing the ruling class; (2) volunteer teachers and (3) students representing the exploited class from a National Minorities school (Lumad Bakwit school); and (4) interviews with students from a Special Science High School who had taken a decolonized critical bioethics class. The different policies enacted to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic represent the violent ethics of the ruling elite against the exploited class. The responses of the research participants form a spectrum of positions and show their class positions. The volunteer teachers and students manifest an ethics of resistance in their responses, while the academic decolonized language of the Special Science High School students in many cases tend to revert to the ethical positions of the ruling class. The findings reveal the relevance of the material conditions of those who are subjected to an ethical transaction that revealed the ethical class positions of different groups. Thus, this research showed that bioethics can be analyzed through the lens of class analysis through the interplay of the environment and the ethics of the exploiter-exploited class dichotomy where a colonizing and decolonizing ethics are in dynamic contradiction. Furthermore, class consciousness can be revealed through a decolonized critical bioethics framework, conscious of the strengths and weaknesses of critical pedagogy and postcoloniality.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Towards a decolonized critical bioethics: Class and the ethics of resistance in the Philippines |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | CC BY-NC: Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179020 |
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