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.