ABSTRACT
IN this George W. Gay Lecture, specifically designated as "upon medical ethics," I shall focus on three issues. The first, an example of intergroup tensions, deals with the common accusation that bioscientists are arrogant, i.e., that they are presumptuous and overweening in their attitudes, decisions, and goals; that they exhibit, in the fashionable noun of the day, hubris. I shall argue that the bioscientist may be arrogant, but no more so than any other group and perhaps just a little bit less so.
