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In this chapter, I shall give an account of the emergence of bioethics as a field of study and then describe its common features in an international context. In the final section I shall suggest how some concept of public reason might be used to meet the challenges thrown up by the contentious nature of the field.
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Campbell, A.V. (2021). Bioethics and Public Reason: How the History of Bioethics Has Led to the Need for Some Concept of Public Reason. In: Li, HL., Campbell, M. (eds) Public Reason and Bioethics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61170-5_14
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