Bioethics and the Media
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Simona Chinelli
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 163-174 File size 279 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2011-001010
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The paper reports the results of a rhetorical analysis of all the articles concerning biomedical and bioethical issues published in 2008 in five Italian newspapers (Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Avvenire, Libero, Manifesto). What emerges is that layman discussions of bioethics are marked by para-arguments (ad baculum, ad populum, ad personam, ad verecundiam, slippery slope), by confusion among the descriptive and the ethical aspects of the questions, by fallacies due to the adoption of generic terms, and by the presence of new scientific and social expectations. In the pars construens of this paper a model of bioethics divulgation is proposed, which aims at stimulating autonomous decisional processes in readers, based on solid scientific and ethical knowledge.
Keywords: Bioethics, Biomedicine, Communication, Divulgation, Rhetoric, Newspapers
Simona Chinelli, La bioetica e i media in "PARADIGMI" 1/2011, pp 163-174, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2011-001010