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Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Book review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life,  November, 2007  by Smith, Wesley J.

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GLOBAL BIOETHICS: THE COLLAPSE OF CONSENSUS edited by H. Tristram Englehardt Jr. M & M Scrivener Press, 416 pages, $39

In Global Bioethics, H. Tristram Englehardt, one of the originators of what has come to be known as bioethics, has edited an arcane and scholarly book in which he and other internationally notable academics explore the possibility, given today's culturally polyglot world, of achieving a truly "global bioethics."

The title seems a bit misleading. Considering the contentious nature of the issues with which bioethics grapples--abortion, assisted ...

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