The story of bioethics : from seminal works to contemporary explorations /

The story of bioethics : from seminal works to contemporary explorations / Jennifer K. Walter, Eran P. Klein, editors. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2003. - xv, 248 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From medical ethics to a moral philosophy of the professions / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- The origins, goals, and core commitments of the Belmont report and Principles of biomedical ethics / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Principles of biomedical ethics: main themes and anticipated changes / Robert M. Veatch -- The foundations of bioethics: rethinking the meaning of morality / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- The Catholic moral tradition in bioethics / Charles E. Curran -- Richard A. McCormick, S.J.'s "To save or let die: the dilemma of modern medicine" / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Contending images of the healer in an era of turnstile medicine / William F. May -- Shaping and mirroring the field: the encyclopedia of bioethics / Warren T. Reich -- The dangers of difference, revisited / Patricia A. King.

0878401385 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780878401383 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Bioethics--History.

QH332 / .S77 2003