The bioethics movement did not arise and expand in a vacuum. As discussed in this chapter,
advances within medicine were creating a need for ethical issues to be identified and …

What is bioethics, that it could so rapidly establish its academic and social status in the
United States and then almost as quickly be accepted across the world? The emergence of …

​ The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics
that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant …

Contemporary bioethics begins with the perception that medical values are a matter of
public, rather than merely professional, interest. Such was the message of delegates in …

THE resurgence of biomedical ethics has been a striking phenomenon of the past decade.
Although ethics has, of course, always had a role in the practice of medicine, only in recent …

The second half of the 20th Century was a good time for applied ethics. Prior to that era,
ethics had become concerned about meta-ethical questions like determining the good, and …

Recent decades have seen the emergence of two new fields of inquiry into ethical issues in
medicine. These are the fields of bioethics and of health and human rights. In this critical …

What is bioethics? Who is a bioethicist? Who is a health care ethics consultant or clinical
ethics consultant? There are no straightforward answers to such questions. Indeed, the …

We will argue here that after more than 30 years of talk, theory, and clinical practice, we
bioethicists still know far too little about what patients, subjects, and healthcare professionals …

This article is the last in a series of articles describing the field of clinical ethics. 1 In this
essay we anticipate some likely directions for clinical ethics. We have chosen to make …