Activist Quote by John Leo

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite…

— Alice Dreger

Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the…

— Anthony Fauci

The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be…

— Arthur Caplan

“First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to…

— Allen Verhey

A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same.

— Gregory Stock

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young…

— John Leo

Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the…

— Arthur Caplan

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

— Margaret Heffernan

Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many…

— Scott Gottlieb

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science…

— Rudolf Virchow