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Program 501: The Ethics of Medicine

In this discussion from a Center conference, the panelists debate the question of whether a new ethics is needed to deal with an increasingly technology-oriented, specialization-based medicine, which has eroded the traditional doctor-patient relationship and aggravated social problems of alienation. Participants include: Harry S. Ashmore, Marjorie Grene, Robert M. Hutchins, Neil Jacoby, Patrick Kelly, Michael Kitzmiller, Karl H. Pribram, Kurt Reinhardt, Nathan Rotenstreich, Michael Scriven, Robert L. Sinsheimer, Kenneth Tollett, Harvey Wheeler, and John Wilkinson. Biological Revolution I. Aug. 19, 1969. [CSDI program number 501; UCSB tape numbers A8099/R7, A8100/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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