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Bioethics in America : origins and cultural politics /

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 ambivale...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stevens, Tina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The tradition of ambivalence
  • The culture of post-atomic ambivalence
  • "Leader of leaders"
  • Redefining death in america
  • "Sleeping beauty"
  • Epilogue: Conclusion and outlook.