The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to Contemporary Explorations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878401385 ISBN 13: 9780878401383

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Contributors include, Tom L. Beauchamp, Lisa Sowle Cahill, James F. Childress, Charles E. Curran, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Patricia A. King, Eran P. Klein, William F. May, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren T. Reich, Robert M. Veatch, Jennifer K. Walter, and LeRoy Walters. "The Story of Bioethics is a veritable 'Genealogy of Medical Morals.' Luminary figures who were active in creating the field of bioethics provide facinatig first-hand accounts of the origins of many of the major theories of medical ethics, recounting the original debates and casting these debates into the 21st century. This book is far more illuminating than any history of bioethics to date. It is much more informative about the actual historical conditions of the writing of these seminal works and provides much more of an intellectual history of bioethics, since the contributors explain how they came to arrive at their philosophical and theological positions, how these positions have evolved, and where they think their theories will move the field in the future. Anyone who wants to know what bioethics is about should read this book." --Daniel Callahan, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D., Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan and New York Medical College

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Review

Far more illuminating than any history of bioethics to date. It is much more informative about the actual historical conditions of the writing of these seminal works and provides much more of an intellectual history of bioethics. Anyone who wants to know what bioethics is about should read this book.

--Ethically Speaking

A handsome, carefully edited, and thoughtfully indexed volume offering authors' reflections on their seminal works . . . To anyone interested in the history of bioethics, or looking for insights into seminal works that guided the field during its first three decades, this is a 'must 'read.'

--The Hastings Center Report

Synopsis

This collection is based on the notion that the future of bioethics is inseparable from its past. Seminal works provide a unique and relatively unexplored vehicle for investigating not only where bioethics began, but where it may be going as well. In this volume, a number of the pioneers in bioethics - Tom Beauchamp, Lisa Sowle Cahill, James Childress, Charles E. Curran, Patricia King, H. Tristram Engelhardt, William F. May, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren Reich, Robert Veatch and LeRoy Walters - reflect on their early work and how they fit into the past and future of bioethics. Coming from many disciplines, generations, and perspectives, these authors provide a broad overview of the history and current state of the field. It should be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in the development and future of bioethics, at a time when new paths into medical questions are made almost daily.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878401385
• ISBN 13: 9780878401383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Walter Jennifer K., Klein Eran P.