A Skeptical Introduction to Bioethics - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- I. History of Bioethics: Four Perspectives -- Beginning Bioethics - Michael S. Yesley -- The Genesis of a Totalizing Ideology: Bioethics' Inner Hippie - Griffin Trotter -- Bioethics and Professional Medical Ethics: Mapping and Managing an Uneasy Relationship - Laurence B. McCullough -- Two Rival Understandings of Autonomy: Paternalism, and Bioethical Principlism - Aaron E. Hinkley -- II. The Practice of Bioethics and Clinical Ethics Consultation: Three Views -- Bioethics as Political Ideology - Mark J. Cherry -- The "s" in Bioethics: Past, Present and Future - Ana S. Iltis and Adrienne Carpenter -- Why Clinical Bioethics So Rarely Gives Morally Normative Guidance: Some Critical Reflections - H. T. Engelhardt, Jr. -- III. The Incredible Search for Bioethical Professionalism: Some Final Critical Reflections on Circular Thinking -- On the Social Construction of Health Care Ethics Consultation - Jeffrey P. Bishop -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.