Montgomery, JR; (2014) Public Bioethics and the Challenges of Legitimation. [Lecture]. Presented at: Inaugural lecture for the Bioethics & Society Master’s Programme, King's College London, Kings College London.

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Abstract

Bioethics can be considered in many ways. It is, at least, (a) a field of study, whereby we can identify exciting, interesting and controversial topics that make for stimulating enquiry; (b) an academic discipline or disciplines, whereby scholarship is brought to bear on these issues; and (c) a set of governance challenges in the public square. This lecture looks at the challenges of legitimation through the lens of the practices adopted by governance bodies, particularly in the UK. It identifies a range of legitimation strategies and considers some of the issues that they raise. While they are not entirely separate from each other, it suggests that they raise distinct, although overlapping questions that help illuminate what is needed for bioethics governance to play successfully its role in the biopolitics of the age.

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