ABSTRACT
This chapter is a celebration of the voices of 11 ethics friends and colleagues from across the past 50 years. These are personal, not academic, reflections as the authors share the stories of their careers and passions for nursing and ethics as they entered the field of bioethics in the late 1960s and onward. These voices do represent some global spread, but not to the degree that I would have wished given the passage now of so many decades. Most of these persons are at or beyond retirement age, so are able to look back, across their lives and across the field of bioethics as it emerged. The form or shape of their narratives was not specified so that they might have a maximum of freedom in what they chose to say. There was no attempt to homogenize their contributions but rather to leave their voices as they are. “May they be for you a blessing.”
