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Author: M. L. Tina Stevens
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.397kg
ISBN: 9780801864254
ISBN 10: 0801864259
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 December 2000
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
<p> Bioethics in America merits our attention. It will encourage additional reflection on the sources and meaning of the rise of this new profession dedicated to moral arbitration.--Raymond DeVries Journal of American History
<p> Ultimately, the innovations and court decisions most associated with bioethics, Stevens shows, were less rooted in concern about the abuse of patients than in researchers' and biomedical institutions' desires for the freedom to pursue new medical technologies and their need for protection from legal liability. Bioethics has served more as a 'midwife' to new medical research and technologies than as a critic. These findings should concern all of us. Steven's critical analysis of bioethics is a valuable revision. -- Leslie J. Reagan, American Historical Review
<p>Stevens has a pithy prose style and a healthy willingness to challenge received wisdom.--Robert Baker, Ph.D Journal of the History of Medicine
An interesting and provocative book, well worth reading for the issues it raises as well as for the historical analysis of the bioethics movement. -- Audrey K. Gordon * Perspectives in Biology and Medicine * Bioethics in America merits our attention. It will encourage additional reflection on the sources and meaning of the rise of this new profession dedicated to moral arbitration. -- Raymond DeVries * Journal of American History * Ultimately, the innovations and court decisions most associated with bioethics, Stevens shows, were less rooted in concern about the abuse of patients than in researchers' and biomedical institutions' desires for the freedom to pursue new medical technologies and their need for protection from legal liability. Bioethics has served more as a 'midwife' to new medical research and technologies than as a critic. These findings should concern all of us. Steven's critical analysis of bioethics is a valuable revision. -- Leslie J. Reagan * American Historical Review * Stevens has a pithy prose style and a healthy willingness to challenge received wisdom. -- Robert Baker, Ph.D * Journal of the History of Medicine * A major contribution to the history of bioethics. * Choice *
Author Information
M. L. Tina Stevens teaches in the history department at San Francisco State University.
