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From Pioneers to Professionals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2011
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Bioethics has made remarkable progress as a scholarly and applied field. A mere fledgling in the 1960s, it is now firmly established in hospitals, medical schools, and government agencies and boasts a number of professional associations and a handsome collection of journals.
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- Symposium: The Coming Generation in American Bioethics
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4. See note 3.
5. Recently, the editors of The Hastings Center Report asked people new to bioethics “what issues bioethics should address in the coming years.” The resulting essays (published in the November–December 2010 issue) give us insight into what the coming generation finds important in bioethics but tell us nothing about who these people are.
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