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Revised edition. Edited by Warren Thomas Reich. 2950 pp. in five volumes. New York, Macmillan, 1995. $425. ISBN 0-02-897355-0.

Over the past 30 years bioethics has developed into a full-fledged academic discipline. The field has professional societies, university degree programs, and clinical fellowships. The forum for scholarly discourse includes textbooks, edited anthologies, case books, and journals. Most schools of medicine have departments of medical humanities or bioethics, and most hospitals have some sort of institutional ethics committee. With the publication of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, this explosion of educational resources finds a critical repository.

The first edition of the encyclopedia was published in 1978. In the 17 years since its publication, bioethics has changed enormously. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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