The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong

by John A. Lynch

The Origins of Bioethics argues that what we remember from the history of medicine and how we remember it are consequential for the identities of doctors, researchers, and patients in the present day. Remembering when medicine went wrong calls people to account for the injustices inflicted on vulnerable communities across the twentieth century in the name of medicine, but the very groups empowered to create memorials to these events often have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863414
• ISBN13: 9781611863413
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"