There is an interesting essay here entitled “The Failure of Bioethics.” The author effectively argues that the important and necessary field of bioethics has gone off the rails yielding to political demands. He concludes,

“Some may be put off by the self-righteous tone that is ­presented as essential to bioethics. Some may simply lose interest in what ­passes for official bioethics. Some may look elsewhere and turn to other disciplines in search of the kinds of insight once offered by bioethics. But all of us will be the poorer for what we now mostly lack: the sort of probing reflection and civil discourse among a ­genuinely diverse array of voices from different disciplines and different points of view, grounded not in a political program but in a vision (or visions) of human nature, that once made bioethics both interesting and significant.“