In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the
origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a
decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead,
Stevens sees bioethics as one more product of a "centuries-long
cultural legacy of American ambivalence toward progress," and she
finds its modern roots in the responsible science movement that
emerged following detonation of the atomic bomb.
Rather than challenging authority, she says, the bioethics
movement was an aid to authority, in that it allowed medical
doctors and researchers to proceed on course while bioethicists
managed public fears about medicine's new technologies. That is,
the public was reassured by bioethical oversight of biomedicine; in
reality, however, bioethicists belonged to the same mainstream that
produced the doctors and researchers whom the bioethicists were
guiding.
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