Editors:
- Contributions from seminal, first-generation figures who were at the historical center of the development of bioethics in the United States.
- Answers the question of whether we can we trace the emergence of bioethics as a field of inquiry in the United States to precise moments, events, socio-political conditions, legal cases, works of scholarship.
- Connects the historical factors in the birth of bioethics to the factors that sustain and encourage its continued development today
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 115)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Birth of Bioethics: Historical Analysis
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The Nature of Bioethics: Cultural and Philosophical Analysis
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The Nature of Bioethics: Cultural and Philosophical Analysis
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The Practice of Bioethics: Professional Dimensions
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The Future of Bioethics: Looking Ahead
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About this book
In only four decades, bioethics has transformed from a fledgling field into a complex, rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field of inquiry and practice. Its influence can be found not only in our intellectual and biomedical institutions, but also in almost every facet of our social, cultural, and political life. This volume maps the remarkable development of bioethics in American culture, uncovering the important historical factors that brought it into existence, analyzing its cultural, philosophical, and professional dimensions, and surveying its potential future trajectories. Bringing together a collection of original essays by seminal figures in the fields of medical ethics and bioethics, it addresses such questions as the following:
- Are there precise moments, events, socio-political conditions, legal cases, and/or works of scholarship to which we can trace the emergence of bioethics as a field of inquiry in the United States?
- What is the relationship between the historico-causal factors that gave birth to bioethics and the factors that sustain and encourage its continued development today?
- Is it possible and/or useful to view the history of bioethics in discrete periods with well-defined boundaries?
- If so, are there discernible forces that reveal why transitions occurred when they did? What are the key concepts that ultimately frame the field and how have they evolved and developed over time?
- Is the field of bioethics in a period of transformation into biopolitics?
Contributors include George Annas, Howard Brody, Eric J. Cassell, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Edmund L. Erde, John Collins Harvey, Albert R. Jonsen, Loretta M. Kopelman, Laurence B. McCullough, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren T. Reich, Carson Strong, Robert M. Veatch, and Richard M. Zaner.
Keywords
- Pellegrino bioethics
- american bioethics
- american biopolitics
- bioethics in the US
- birth of bioethics
- development of bioethics
- engelhardt bioethics
- founding of bioethics
- future bioethics
- growth of bioethics
- history of bioethics
- history of ethics
- history of medical ethics
- identity of bioethics
- professional medical ethics
- reflections on bioethics
- teaching bioethics
- veatch bioethics
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This edited book explores the past, present, and future of bioethics in the United States from cultural, philosophical, political, and professional angles. … the book will benefit bioethics scholars and advanced students. … the book is a worthwhile contribution to the literature on the development of bioethics in the United States.” (Gina M. Fullam, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Philosophy, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, USA
Jeremy R. Garrett
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Southwestern Medical Center, Dept. Psychiatry, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Fabrice Jotterand
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Dept. Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, USA
D. Christopher Ralston
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Development of Bioethics in the United States
Editors: Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jotterand, D. Christopher Ralston
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4011-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4010-5Published: 02 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9714-7Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4011-2Published: 30 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 280
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Regional and Cultural Studies