The development of bioethics in the United States

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Development of Bioethics in the United States: An Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Beginnings of Bioethics....Pages 17-23
Teaching at the University of Texas Medical Branch, 1971–1974: Humanities, Ethics, or Both?....Pages 25-36
André Hellegers, the Kennedy Institute, and the Development of Bioethics: The American–European Connection....Pages 37-54
Bioethics as a Liberal Roman Catholic Heresy: Critical Reflections on the Founding of Bioethics....Pages 55-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
A Corrective for Bioethical Malaise: Revisiting the Cultural Influences That Shaped the Identity of Bioethics....Pages 79-100
American Biopolitics....Pages 101-115
Medicine and Philosophy: The Coming Together of an Odd Couple....Pages 117-136
The Growth of Bioethics as a Second-Order Discipline....Pages 137-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
The Development of Bioethics: Bringing Physician Ethics into the Moral Consensus....Pages 163-177
Professionalism vs. Medical Ethics in the Current Era: A Battle of Giants?....Pages 179-206
The Role of an Ideology of Anti-Paternalism in the Development of American Bioethics....Pages 207-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Themes and Schemes in the Development of Biomedical Ethics....Pages 223-239
Medical Ethics and Moral Philosophy in an Era of Bioethics....Pages 241-254
Prolegomena to Any Future Bioethics....Pages 255-263
Back Matter....Pages 265-279