From its inception, bioethics has claimed to be a project of reflection on the moral issues
raised by new technologies. Yet, in its present form there is a perception of a gradual …

Little attention has been paid to the history of the influence of the social sciences upon
medical thinking and practice in the twentieth century. The essays in this volume explore the …

J ust prior to the election of President Clinton in Sep-tember 1992, Senators Edward M.
Kennedy, Mark O. Hatfield, and Dennis DeConcini asked the Office of Technology …

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 …

This report presents a proposal for a new approach to regulating human biomedicine in the
United States. It is the product of more than three years of research, and of a study group …

Though bioethics emerged as a sphere of inquiry and application of moral and juridical
principles less than a century ago, its rise and expansion have nevertheless been …

Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term" the biological revolution." Like many
others, I have employed it as an umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving …

1. Bioethics is the critical examination of the moral dimensions of deci sion making in health
related contexts and in contexts involving the biological sciences. Many of the problems of …

The philosophy of medicine cum bioethics has become the socially recognized source for
moral and epistemic direction in health-care decision-making. Over the last three decades …