Description: Preface. Contributors. 1. Donald W. Light and Glenn McGee, On the Social Embeddedness of Bioethics. I. THE SOCIAL SOURCES OF BIOETHICS. 2. Jonathan B. Imber, Medical Publicity before Bioethics: Nineteenth-Century Illustrations of Twentieth-Century Dilemmas. 3. Paul Root Wolpe, The Triumph of Autonomy in American Bioethics: A Sociological View. 4. Jeanne Guillemin, Bioethics and the Coming of the Corporation to Medicine. 5. Jonathan D. Moreno and Valerie Hurt, How the Atomic Energy Commission Discovered "Informed Consent". II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF BIOETHICS. 6. Charles L. Bosk and Joel Frader, Institutional Ethics Committees: Sociological Oxymoron, Empirical Black Box. 7. Rob Houtepen, The Social Construction of Euthanasia and Medical Ethics in the Netherlands. 8. Dorothy C. Wertz, International Research in Bioethics: The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Interpretation. III. DOING BIOETHICS. 9. Eugene B. Gallagher, Pamela Schlomann, Rebecca S. Sloan, Jessica Mesman, Julie B. Brown, and Anna Cholewinska, To Enrich Bioethics, Add One Part Social to One Part Clinical. 10. Bette-Jane Crigger, As Time Goes By: An Intellectual Ethnography of Bioethics. 11. Karen G. Gervais, Changing Society, Changing Medicine, Changing Bioethics. IV. SOCIOLOGY IN BIOETHICS. 12. Raymond DeVries and Peter Conrad, Why Bioethics Needs Sociology. 13. Bruce Jennings, Autonomy and Difference: The Travails of Liberalism in Bioethics. AFTERWORD. 14. Renee C. Fox and Raymond DeVries, The Sociology of Bioethics.

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