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Beginning Bioethics

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Bioethics Critically Reconsidered

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One day many years ago a former boss called to tell me about a job opening for “someone like you.” A federal advisory commission on human experimentation was about to hold its first meeting and needed a staff director. I was intrigued by the opportunity but dubious. Protecting human research subjects would be a stretch, career-wise. Since law school I had worked briefly in civil rights but mainly in financial regulation. And I wasn’t sure what “someone like you” meant.

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    Michael S. Yesley

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Yesley, M.S. (2012). Beginning Bioethics. In: Engelhardt, H. (eds) Bioethics Critically Reconsidered. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2244-6_2

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