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A Bioethics “Case” is Always a Person’s Story

Posted by: Jessica on: October 7, 2011

I’ve been teaching and working in bioethics for over a decade now, and like any bioethicist, I can rattle off a list of canonical cases: Quinlan, Cruzan, Conroy, Elizabeth Bouvia, Tarasoff, Baby M, Baby Jane Doe, Adam and Molly Nash, Tuskegee, Willowbrook, etc. etc. They each are slotted in to a different ethical lesson, be [...]

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