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Bioethics in America : origins and cultural politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, M. L. Tina
Corporate Author: Hastings Center
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Ethics, Medical > history.
Bioethics > history.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The tradition of ambivalence
  • The culture of post-atomic ambivalence
  • "Leader of leaders": the Hastings Center, 1969 to the present
  • Redefining death in America, 1968
  • "Sleeping beauty": Karen Ann Quinlan and the rise of bioethics in America
  • Conclusion and outlook.