The making of British bioethics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wilson, Duncan, 1978- author.
Imprint:	Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (1 PDF file (xi, 303 pages)) : portrait
Language:	English
Series:	Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subject:	Bioethics -- Great Britain -- History. Bioethics -- history Bioethical Issues -- history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Bioethics. United Kingdom Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11736107

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ISBN:	9781526102829 152610282X 9781847798879 184779887X 9780719096198 0719096197
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Open Access English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 6, 2016).
Summary:	This book draws on a wide range of sources to detail how and why bioethics became so influential in Britain, including the archives of government departments, public inquiries, universities and professional organisations, as well as private papers, published materials, press reports, television programmes and interviews. I use this material to chart the professional, social and political factors that underpinned the making of British bioethics: to show how certain individuals fashioned themselves into authorities on bioethics; to identify the various sites in which bioethics emerged; and to outline how it fulfilled different roles for various groups and professions.
Other form:	Print version: Wilson, Duncan, 1978- Making of British bioethics. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014 9780719096198
Standard no.:	10.26530/OAPEN_502670

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1: Ethics 'by and for professions': the origins and endurance of club regulation
2: Ian Ramsey, theology and 'trans-disciplinary' medical ethics
3: 'Who's for bioethics?' Ian Kennedy, oversight and accountability in the 1980s
4: 'Where to draw the line?' Mary Warnock, embryos and moral expertise
5: 'A service to the community as a whole': the emergence of bioethics at British universities
Consolidating the 'ethics industry': a national ethics committee and bioethics during the 1990s
Conclusion.

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