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Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
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Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the
biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an
umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and
fre quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine:
psy chosurgery, genetic counseling and engineering, artificial
heart-lung machines, organ transplants-and on and on. The real
"biological revo lution," he pointed out, began back in the
nineteenth century in Europe. For it was then that death rates and
infant mortality began to decline, the germ theory of disease was
firmly established, Darwin took his famous trip on the Beagle, and
Gregor Mendel stumbled on to some fundamental principles of
heredity. My friend, I think, was both right and wrong. The
biological revolution did have its roots in the nineteenth century;
that is when it first began to unfold. Yet, like many intellectual
and scientific upheav als, its force was not felt for decades.
Indeed, it seems fair to say that it was not until after the Second
World War that the full force of the earlier discoveries in biology
and medicine began to have a major impact, an impact that was all
the more heightened by the rapid bi omedical developments after the
war."
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