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This chapter tracks the crucial initial cases and concerns in the development of Bioethics in the United States, from the ethical tangles surrounding the manipulation of cells, technology-assisted reproduction, abortion, care for the impaired infant, on to the decisions regarding death, withholding of interventions, and assisted suicide.
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Since “medical ethics” seems to apply to physicians only, more recent texts name the field “health care ethics,” which applies to all the health care fields, or “bioethics,” which includes biomedical and behavioral research as well as treatment of patients.
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Newton, L. (2013). Birth, Life, Death. In: The American Experience in Bioethics. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00363-4_1
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