Bioethics in America

Origins & Cultural Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6425-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

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.

Rather than challenging authority, she says, the bioethics movement was an aid to authority, in that it allowed medical doctors and researchers to proceed on course while bioethicists managed public fears about medicine's new technologies. That is, the public was reassured by bioethical oversight of biomedicine; in reality, however, bioethicists belonged to the same mainstream that produced the doctors and researchers whom the bioethicists were guiding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stevens, M L Tina

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue. The Tradition of Ambivalence
Chapter 1. The Culture of Post-atomic Ambivalence
Chapter 2 "Leaders of Leaders": The Hastings Center, 1969 to the Present
Chapter 3. Redefining Death in America, 1968
Chapter 4. "Sleeping Beauty": Karen Ann Quinlan and the Rise of Bioethics in America
Epilogue. Conclusion and Outlook

Über Autor(innen)

Stevens, M L Tina
M. L. Tina Stevens teaches in the history department at San Francisco State University.