December 19, 2003

When Good Institutions Behave Badly

By TIMOTHY F. MURPHY

Bioethics has come into its own since the 1970s. It enjoys a certain prominence in most medical schools, and its tendrils are spreading across the rest of academe. The hallmarks of a robust professional life are all there: respected journals, big debates, crowded professional meetings, graduate degrees, and competition for jobs. Just when bioethicists think that they are making advances, however, their universities sometimes pull the rug out from under them. Mine, the University of Illinois

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