title: Forty years later: the scope of bioethics revisited.
abstract: Two discrete conceptions of bioethics emerged in the 1970s: a holistic model that would "embrace within its scope long-range environmental concerns" versus a notion of bioethics that "would deal with concrete medical dilemmas." Although the latter has been the dominant perspective, Irina Pollard's new book Bioscience Ethics reintroduces a more global perspective of bioethics. This essay provides a cursory review of the different conceptions of bioethics and where Pollard's book fits in the controversy. It concludes by considering how some progress has been made to find a middle path that interprets bioethics more broadly as "the ethics of the life sciences and health care."
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Surgery, the College, and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637, USA. lross@uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Lainie Friedman
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D014481:United States