title: What can history do for bioethics?
abstract: This article details the relationship between history and bioethics. I argue that historians' reluctance to engage with bioethics rests on a misreading of the field as solely reducible to applied ethics, and overlooks previous enthusiasm for historical perspectives. I claim that seeing bioethics as its practitioners see it - as an interdisciplinary meeting ground - should encourage historians to collaborate in greater numbers. I conclude by outlining how bioethics might benefit from new histories of the field, and how historians can lend a fresh perspective to bioethical debates.
authors.affiliation: University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, UK. duncan.wilson@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Duncan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics / Q000266:history*; D006664:History; D049673:History, 20th Century