Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Ethics ‘by and for professions’: the origins and endurance of club regulation
2. Ian Ramsey, theology and ‘trans-disciplinary’ medical ethics
3. ‘Who’s for bioethics?’ Ian Kennedy, oversight and accountability in the 1980s
4. ‘Where to draw the line?’ Mary Warnock, embryos and moral expertise
5. ‘A service to the community as a whole’: the emergence of bioethics in British universities
6. Consolidating the ‘ethics industry’: a national ethics committee and bioethics during the 1990s
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Duncan Wilson is a research associate at the University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)