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Bioethics: Past, Present, and an Open Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2002

ERICH H. LOEWY
ERICH H. LOEWY
Affiliation:
Erich H. Loewy, M.D., is Professor and Alumni Chair of Bioethics at the University of California, Davis
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The history in which bioethics developed is well reviewed in a recent book written by Al Jonsen. This superb little volume gives a concise—even if a necessarily rather subjective—account of the development of the field. A more objective history of the contemporary development of the field cannot be expected from those who helped craft it and awaits historians of the future. What I have been asked to do here is to supply my own personal impressions of the development of this field as I have experienced it. What I have been asked to do here is to supply my own personal impressions of the development of this field as I have experienced it.

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SPECIAL SECTION: FIRST VOICES
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 388 - 397
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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