Bioethics in America
Subtitle: Origins and Cultural Politics
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 23, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801864254
Subjects: Bio-ethics; History of science; Medical ethics; Bioethics; Medical / Nursing; Medical; USA; United States; Ethics; Medical / Ethics; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; History
First sentence: In 1977, Hastings Center founder Daniel Callahan characterized bioethicists as trying to wrench control from physicians.
Description: "In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead, Stevens sees bioethics as one more product of a "centuries-long cultural legacy of American ambivalence toward progress," and she finds its modern roots in the responsible science movement that emerged following detonation of the atomic bomb."--BOOK JACKET.