TY - JOUR T1 - Does bioethics exist? JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 778 LP - 780 DO - 10.1136/jme.2008.028605 VL - 35 IS - 12 AU - L Turner Y1 - 2009/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/35/12/778.abstract N2 - Bioethicists disagree over methods, theories, decision-making guides, case analyses and public policies. Thirty years ago, the thinking of many scholars coalesced around a principlist approach to bioethics. That mid-level mode of moral reasoning is now one of many approaches to moral deliberation. Significant variation in contemporary approaches to the study of ethical issues related to medicine, biotechnology and health care raises the question of whether bioethics exists as widely shared method, theory, normative framework or mode of moral reasoning. ER -