Ethos

"Only half of bioethics counts as an ordinary academic discipline: the half that has original and borrowed theory, principles, and methods. But only part of bioethics lies within the academy, where scholars worry about whether they have a discipline to teach and promoted. THe other half of bioethics is the public discourse: people of all sorts and professions talking and arguing about bioethical questions."

Albert Jonsen. The Birth of Bioethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 348.