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From Pioneers to Professionals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

SONALI S. PARNAMI ,
KATHERINE Y. LIN ,
KATHRYN BONDY FESSLER ,
ERICA BLOM ,
MATTHEW SULLIVAN  and
RAYMOND G. DE VRIES
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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.

Type
Symposium: The Coming Generation in American Bioethics
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 104 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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3. Available at http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/documents/Caplan-Letter_to_future_bioethicists.pdf (last accessed 29 Sept 2011).

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.