title: Why Did Hospital Ethics Committees Emerge in the US?
authors.affiliation: Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Mark P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Aulisio
mesh_terms: D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical / Q000266:history*; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States