title: Consensus formation: the creation of an ideology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: H Tristram
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Engelhardt
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D002835:Christianity; D032921:Consensus; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006291:Health Policy; D019359:Knowledge; D009014:Morals; D033302:Postmodernism; D035621:Secularism; D019366:Western World