Contributors include, Tom L. Beauchamp, Lisa Sowle Cahill, James F. Childress, Charles E. Curran, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Patricia A. King, Eran P. Klein, William F. May, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren T. Reich, Robert M. Veatch, Jennifer K. Walter, and LeRoy Walters. "The Story of Bioethics is a veritable 'Genealogy of Medical Morals.' Luminary figures who were active in creating the field of bioethics provide facinatig first-hand accounts of the origins of many of the major theories of medical ethics, recounting the original debates and casting these debates into the 21st century. This book is far more illuminating than any history of bioethics to date. It is much more informative about the actual historical conditions of the writing of these seminal works and provides much more of an intellectual history of bioethics, since the contributors explain how they came to arrive at their philosophical and theological positions, how these positions have evolved, and where they think their theories will move the field in the future. Anyone who wants to know what bioethics is about should read this book." --Daniel Callahan, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D., Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan and New York Medical College