title: Edmund Pellegrino and the art of civilized dialectics.
abstract: I had the good fortune to work with Edmund Pellegrino from 2005 until 2009, while he was chairman and I was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. We came from different disciplines--medicine and law--and from different generations. Until that point, our paths had rarely crossed. I am so glad that I finally did have an opportunity to get to know him. Pellegrino contributed a great deal to the council during his time as chairman. I cannot begin to cover all that he brought to the council during his four years of leadership. In this essay, I describe how his views of both public bioethics and clinical ethics shaped his council participation.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dresser
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000266:history*; D001675:Bioethics / Q000266:history; D002962:Civilization; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D017008:Negotiating; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000266:history*; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States