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01-12-2018 | Editorial

To the Barricades or the Blackboard: Bioethical Activism and the “Stance of Neutrality”

Authors: Michael A. Ashby, Bronwen Morrell

Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Issue 4/2018

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Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister famously dismissed a meeting with a group of medical royal college leaders as “a mere trade union delegation.” This was, of course, an affront to their professional status and dignity. It also provided a brutal lesson in the boundaries of professional authority in the eyes of government when what might be termed the “stance of neutrality” strays, perhaps unintentionally, into the political arena (however misguided the PM of the time might have been in her perceptions). …

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Title: To the Barricades or the Blackboard: Bioethical Activism and the “Stance of Neutrality”
Authors: Michael A. Ashby
Bronwen Morrell
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1176-7529
Electronic ISSN: 1872-4353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9887-0

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