The Logic and Legitimacy of American Bioethics
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

xiii

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

Bioethics and the Challenge of Speaking Truth to Power

4

Theoretical Approach

11

Boundary Work and Professions

12

Organizations

13

Poststructuralist Policy Analysis

16

Methodology: Overall Approach and Justification

18

Part I: Bioethics in the University Community

23

Chapter 2: Establishment of an Academic Bioethics Center: Entrepreneurs of Ethics

27

National Profile of Bioethics Academic Programs

31

Case Study of a Bioethics Academic Unit

35

Establishment of the Bioethics Center

38

Geography

38

Institutional Characteristics

39

Students

39

The Director of Medical Education

41

The Medical School Bioethics Task Force

43

Proposal for a Regent?/?Trustee Professorship in Bioethics

44

The Medical School Dean

45

Development of the Center: Financial and Intellectual Independence

46

The Organization and Institutionalization of the Bioethics Center at Letters University

53