Observing bioethics / Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey ; with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins.
Observing bioethics / Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey ; with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins.
Observing bioethics / Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey ; with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N174.2/212
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 388 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The coming of bioethics -- The coming of bioethicists -- "Choices on our conscience": the inauguration of the Kennedy Institute of Education -- "Hello, Dolly": bioethics in the media -- Celebrating bioethics and bioethicists -- Thinking socially and culturally in bioethics -- Reminiscences of observ...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2008.
Subjects
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- Bioethics--history--United States
- History, 20th Century--United States
- Sociology--United States
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Summary
While recognizing the intellectual, moral, and sociological importance of American bioethics, they are critical of certain of its characteristics, and concerned about their implications - especially the problems of thinking socially, culturally, and internationally that have existed since bioethics' inception; the field's "tenuous interdisciplinari...
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Observing bioethics / Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey ; with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-371) and index.
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N174.2/212
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74VM4a362QBA
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ISBN
0195365550 (alk. paper)
9780195365559 (alk. paper)
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174.2
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991001433099702626
