By George J. Annas. 244 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. $35. ISBN 0-19-516949-2.
The field of bioethics is at a crossroads. When the field beganin the United States, back in the late 1960s, it was not yeta field. Rather, bioethics began as a cacophony of a varietyof voices in different disciplines, united primarily by commoninterests in the ethical problems posed by emerging technologiessuch as kidney dialysis, genetic testing, and in vitro fertilization.The initial discussions at places such as the Hastings Centerand the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in the early 1970s werenot dominated by any single discipline or particular ethicalproblem. What bound together the odd . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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