PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - De Beaufort, Inez TI - Those were the days: looking back at the future AID - 10.1136/jme.22.6.356 DP - 1996 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 356--359 VI - 22 IP - 6 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/22/6/356.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/22/6/356.full SO - J Med Ethics1996 Dec 01; 22 AB - The central idea of this “article” is that certain developments such as extreme simplification, the politicisation of medical ethics, the “normative industry” and “empirethics”, may seriously threaten the (future) practice of medical ethics.