“Among the warnings voiced at the conference was one by Xu Zhi-Wei, a professor of molecular biology, medicine and bioethics.”

“This has led to productive dialogue between medical sociology, bioethics, and the medical humanities.”

“Some of the most contentious and disputed issues of our day are matters of bioethics.”

“I once had a conversation with a fairly well-known bioethicist about his experience turning off the ventilator on his brain-dead father.”

“As a French bioethicist has recently argued, physicians have, first and above all, to respect the rights of the patients in their charge.”

“Perhaps no issue highlights these challenges so clearly as conflicts between the bioethicist and her employer.”

“In their eyes, the destiny of bioethicists is to sit on bioethics committees and set public policy.”

“Most bioethicists would agree that the primary issues revolve around matters of dignity and personhood.”

“Subsequent media coverage of such issues as xenografting and human cloning made bioethics and bioethicists familiar to many Americans.”