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Philosophy and Medicine
The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book
results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the
blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s, research assistant at
the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi-
cal Branch at Galveston, Texas, in 1974, on the recommendation of our
teacher at the University of Texas at Austin, Irwin C. Lieb. During that
summer Tris "lent" me to Chester Bums, who has done important schol-
arly work over the years on the history of medical ethics. I was just
finding out what bioethics was and Chester sent me to the rare book room
of the Medical Branch Library to do some work on something called
"medical deontology." I discovered that this new field of bioethics had
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