Bioethics as social philosophy

Social Philosophy and Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-125

  Wildes, Kevin Wm ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY; SECULARISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; THEOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

BIOETHICS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SECULARISM; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; THEOLOGY;

EID: 0037514490     PISSN: 02650525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265052502192053     Document Type: Article

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35. See, for example, James F. Drane, "Bioethical Perspectives from Ibero-America, " Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21, no. 6 (1996): 556-69; Eugenia Porto, "Social Context and Historical Emergence: The Underlying Dimension of Medical Ethics, " Theoretical Medicine 11, no. 2 (1990): 145-65; and Klaus Leisinger, "Bioethics Here and in Poor Countries: A Comment, " Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2, no. 1 (1993): 5-8.
36. See, for example, James F. Drane, "Bioethical Perspectives from Ibero-America, " Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21, no. 6 (1996): 556-69; Eugenia Porto, "Social Context and Historical Emergence: The Underlying Dimension of Medical Ethics, " Theoretical Medicine 11, no. 2 (1990): 145-65; and Klaus Leisinger, "Bioethics Here and in Poor Countries: A Comment, " Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2, no. 1 (1993): 5-8.
37. See, for example, James F. Drane, "Bioethical Perspectives from Ibero-America, " Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21, no. 6 (1996): 556-69; Eugenia Porto, "Social Context and Historical Emergence: The Underlying Dimension of Medical Ethics, " Theoretical Medicine 11, no. 2 (1990): 145-65; and Klaus Leisinger, "Bioethics Here and in Poor Countries: A Comment, " Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2, no. 1 (1993): 5-8.
38. See Callahan, "Why America Accepted Bioethics."