In search of the good : a life in bioethics /
Daniel Callahan.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages) : illustrations.
- Basic bioethics. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Laying the foundations: 1930-1961 -- My own 1960s: a decade of transformation -- Giving birth to a center: 1969-1979 -- Coping with success: 1980-1986 -- The routinization of charisma: 1986-1996 -- Opening the flood gates: 1996-2010 -- The future of bioethics -- Unraveling the puzzle of ethics -- Reaching the finish line.
One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time.