However, the author believes that Kass presents a distorted, out - of - date picture of the present field of bioethics, which has changed much over the past three decades. (religion-online.org)
In 1969, at the suggestion of theologian Paul Ramsey, I asked Kass to help my colleague Willard Gaylin and me establish the Hastings Center, which became the world's first research group devoted to the then nonexistent field of bioethics. (religion-online.org)
With the explosion of public interest in human genetics that surrounded the launch of the Human Genome Project, a new field of bioethics was born, and named «gen - ethics.» (synbioproject.org)