The collection consists of one album containing book covers of bioethics publications authored by Kennedy Institute scholars and library staff dating from around 1975 to 1983. Some covers are photocopies. It includes, but is not limited to, the following authors and editors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Robert M. Veatch, LeRoy Walters, Ruth Faden, Tom L. Beauchamp, Richard A. McCormick, James F. Childress, and Edmund D. Pellegrino. Altogether, the album documents the scholarly output of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its associates from the 1970s through the early 1980s.
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The collection consists of one album containing book covers of bioethics publications authored by Kennedy Institute scholars and library staff dating from around 1975 to 1983. Some covers are photocopies. It includes, but is not limited to, the following authors and editors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Robert M. Veatch, LeRoy Walters, Ruth Faden, Tom L. Beauchamp, Richard A. McCormick, James F. Childress, and Edmund D. Pellegrino. Altogether, the album documents the scholarly output of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its associates from the 1970s through the early 1980s.
Historical Note
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics was established in 1971 at Georgetown University as one of the first bioethics research centers in the world.
Arrangement
The collection has not been rearranged by an archivist and remains in the order in which it was originally arranged.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection consists of materials assembled by Kennedy Institute of Ethics library staff that were transferred to the BRL Archives at some point prior to 2020. The materials were retroactively accessioned in 2022.
Processing Information
The materials have been rehoused in an archival-quality box and folders. The items could not be safely removed from the adhesive album pages.
[item, date]; [folder title], [box and folder numbers]; Kennedy Institute of Ethics Publications Album, BRL-024. Bioethics Research Library, Georgetown University. https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/7/resources/12548 Accessed July 04, 2022.