ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with Andie Knutson's concern with values and existential beliefs that bear on human health and medical practice. The issues about the meaning of fetal life that Knutson explored among public health professionals seem likely to be substantially reframed by the new technologies, according to Ruth Faden. The chapter shows that the dilemmas of ethical disagreement have strayed from the area of health decisions that Knutson was concerned with. As many contributors to the classic tradition of sociological theory have noted in different ways, modern society is deficient in sense of community, deficient in moral consensus. The impact of the visual image on prospective parents and health care providers is as yet unknown". Public Health Service with distinction, Knutson came to the University of California at Berkeley in 1957 to initiate the program in behavioral sciences in the School of Public Health.
