The making of British bioethics
Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social scientists, now discuss and help regulate issues that were once left to doctors and scientists, in a form of outside invol...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | Manchester History of Medicine
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Ethics 'by and for professions': the origins and endurance of club regulation
- 2. Ian Ramsey, theology and 'trans-disciplinary' medical ethics
- 3. 'Who's for bioethics?' Ian Kennedy, oversight and accountability in the 1980s
- 4. 'Where to draw the line?' Mary Warnock, embryos and moral expertise
- 5. 'A service to the community as a whole': the emergence of bioethics in British universities
- 6. Consolidating the 'ethics industry': a national ethics committee and bioethics during the 1990s
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
