Observing bioethics / Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey ; with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

xii, 388 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-371) and index.

The coming of bioethics -- The coming of bioethicists -- "Choices on our conscience": the inauguration of the Kennedy Institute of Education -- "Hello, Dolly": bioethics in the media -- Celebrating bioethics and bioethicists -- Thinking socially and culturally in bioethics -- Reminiscences of observing participants -- Bioethics circles the globe -- Bioethics in France -- The development of bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan -- The coming of the culture wars to American bioethics.