Bioethics Critically Reconsidered Having Second Thoughts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 100
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics....