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Edited by K.W.M. Fulford, Grant R. Gillett, and Janet Martin Soskice. 207 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-521-45325-9 (cloth); 0-521-45946-X (paper).

If there is an unacknowledged tension lurking behind much recent work in bioethics, it is over the place of philosophy and philosophers. Certainly, the origins of contemporary bioethics owe much to philosophy and its subfield of ethics. Whether it was the rigors of logic and careful analysis of concepts or the advantage of the objectivity of outsiders regarding the accepted practices of the medical subculture, philosophers such as Robert Veatch, Tom Beauchamp, Dan Callahan, Al Johnson, and Leon Kass were seminal contributors to the developing new field in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Recently the call has gone out . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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