This book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new analysis on how ordinary questions become -bioethical- questions.

• Provides new analysis on the variations between different countries and their health systems
  
• Questions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists
  
• Investigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociology
  
• An essential text for medical sociologists,...