“Moral Experience and Ethical Reflection: Can Ethnography Reconcile Them? A Quandary for ‘The New Bioethics,’” written by American psychiatrist and medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman in 1999 argues that with increasing globalization, a widening income gap, and modernization of our world, the “universal” principles of bioethics no longer represent local moral experience. In bioethics discourse, Kleinman …
