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1024773
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b779143
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Stevens, M. L. Tina.
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Bioethics in America : : origins and cultural politics /\ M.L. Tina Stevens.
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2000.
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, ©2000
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1 online resource (xvi, 204 pages)
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0801876974
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: 9780801876974
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0801864259
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9780801864254
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: The tradition of ambivalence -- The culture of post-atomic ambivalence -- "Leader of leaders" -- Redefining death in america -- "Sleeping beauty" -- Epilogue: Conclusion and outlook.
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In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead, Stevens sees bioethics as one more product of a "centuries-long cultural legacy of American ambivalence toward progress," and she finds its modern roots in the responsible science movement that emerged following detonation of the atomic bomb. Rather than challenging authority, she says, the bioethics movement was an aid to authority, in that it allowed medical doctors and researchers to proceed on course while bioethicists managed public fears about medicine's new technologies. That is, the public was reassured by bioethical oversight of biomedicine; in reality, however, bioethicists belonged to the same mainstream that produced the doctors and researchers whom the bioethicists were guiding.
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Hastings Center.
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Hastings Center.
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Hastings Center.
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Bioethics-- United States-- History.
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Medical ethics-- United States-- History.
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Bioéthique-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
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Éthique médicale-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
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Bioethics.
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Medical ethics.
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MEDICAL-- Ethics.
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Ethics, Medical-- United States-- History.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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174/.2/0973
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R724.S84 2000eb
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W 50S845b 2000
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