Filling the Void: Academic Ethics and Secular Medicine

Abstract

The author explores a narrative about the interaction among Anglophone academic ethics, religious approaches to ethics and secularism in the last half of the twentieth century. Although the particular events in this history are already well-known to anyone familiar with the development of academic ethics in recent decades, the author’s goal is to set these events in relation to one another in the way that will shed new light on their broader cultural significance.