technological imperative, 15

theologian, 10, 121, 202

theology, 13, 71, 186

therapeutic misconception, 1, 32–33, 64, 78, 106–107, 120, 185

Thomson, James, 139

totipotency (zygote), 190, 210

Tuskegee Study, 5, 22, 143

uncertainty

about the professional status of bioethics and ethics consultation, 151

about the promise of stem cell research, 188–189

and mimetic isomorphism, 55

coupling of scientific and ethical, 172, 206

in health care issues, 149

management of ethical, 203–205

of cell identity, 191

presidential commissions and, 176

university centers and institutes (C&Is)

academic capitalism and, 27–31

isomorphism of, in bioethics, 54–56

University of Chicago, 98, 157, 173

University of Iowa, 137, 167–168

University of Minnesota, 84, 137–138

University of Oklahoma, 139

University of Pennsylvania, 22, 99, 110, 136

University of South Florida, 168

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), 108

University of Toronto, 30

University of Virginia, 34

University of Wisconsin, 188, 209

Varmus, Harold, 183, 188

Vienna Circle, 173

Weberian rationalization, 10, 179, 213

Western Michigan University, 34

Wetherill v. University of Chicago,, 157

Whitlock v. Duke University,, 142

women’s studies, 3, 24, 40

Zoloth, Laurie, 88