malpractice, 86, 132, 135, 140, 144, 146–147, 158, 160–161, 164, 167, 212, 216

market account (of curricular change), 157

Matter of Baby K,, 164

Mead, George Herbert, 173

mediaSee also press, 5, 13, 38, 70, 94, 133, 139, 175, 217, 220–221

Medicaid, 29

medical ethics, 4–5, 7, 33–34, 40–42, 44, 79–80, 102, 104, 120, 177

Medicare, 29, 46

mentoring, 101–102, 107, 110–111, 113–115

mentors, 110, 120

Mertonian norms, 15

metaethics, 174

midcareer professionals (as students), 100, 114–118, 123

Miike, Commissioner (NBAC), 199, 201

Milstein, Alan, 138–139, 144, 168

mimetic isomorphism, 55

molecular biology, 44, 59

moral authoritySee also authority, 2, 6, 8, 65, 73, 76–78, 94, 147, 154, 213–214

Moreno, Jonathan, 7, 9, 96, 150

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 186

National Association of State Universities and land-grant Colleges, 137, 192

National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), 4, 129, 172, 223

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (National Commission), 5, 177

National Institutes of Health (NIH), 180, 182

new economy, 15–16, 29, 98, 216, 218–219

new institutional theory, 14, 24, 53

New York University, 97

normative ethics, 174

normative isomorphism, 55–56

Nuremberg Code, 144

nursing, 32, 64, 70, 79–81, 91, 93, 96, 118, 120, 154, 212

objectivity, 56, 82, 152

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), 136

Office of Research Integrity (ORI), 60

Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), 180

Office of the Inspector General, DHHS (OIG), 136

organizational ethics, 105, 149

Partnership for Caring (formerly Choice in Dying), 88

peer review, 189, 204

personhood, 175, 191

philosophy (academic field of), 31–35, 64, 72, 74, 78–79, 82, 93, 102, 106–107, 110, 120, 173–175, 185

physics, 16

pluripotent (stem cells), 183, 190–191, 210

poststructural policy analysis, 17

President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (President’s Commission), 5, 177