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Ethics Committees and Social Issues: Potentials and Pitfalls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan
Affiliation:
Director of The Hastings Center
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Extract

When the Karen Ann Quinlan case emerged in the mid-1970s and the New Jersey Supreme Court made mention of the role that ethics committees might play in such cases, no one could have predicted at the time what the consequences of that observation might be. It took a while for momentum to build, but we are now seeing the flowering of what is an important movement in the field of bioethics: the interplay of ethics committees and broader societal issues.

Type
From the Annual Congress of Healthcare Ethics Committees
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Winter 1992 , pp. 5 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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