This journal special issue, with five papers from an impressively multi-disciplinary authorship, follows a conference hosted in Manchester by the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation that examined methods in bioethics. The discussions at that meeting focused on questions of inter-, multi-, post-, pan-, and trans-disciplinarity, and necessarily led to deep reflection on the very nature and value of bioethics itself: reinvigorating questions about methods seemed impossible without also exploring questions of scholarly identity and self-reflection. As such, the short discussion in this editorial, and the much more engaged arguments in the papers that follow, are advanced as a contribution to the growing literature that examines what we, as bioethics scholars in the field, do, and how we go about doing it.
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