Volume 23, Number 13 · August 5, 1976
'Bioethics': The Case of the Fetus
By Peter Singer
Research on the Fetus: The Report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Federal Register
with a separately published Appendix, DHEW Publication No. (OS) 76-128
The Ethics of Fetal Research
by Paul Ramsey
Yale University Press, 104 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Few fields of study have grown faster than that which has come to be called—by Americans, anyway—'bioethics.' Bioethics is the study of ethical problems raised by the biological and medical sciences. It is, at least in part, the proliferation of new techniques in these sciences that has led to the growth of bioethics.
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