Thoughts on “The Case” in Public Bioethics This year I’ve been contemplating the ethics of highly publicized bioethics “cases.” Here I am thinking about medical (or medical-related) individual patient situations that enter mainstream awareness through news media, and then are debated in the public sphere, as well as among academic bioethicists. I am writing from the United States, where there is a history of these public cases shaping bioethics as a field. We can name patient

Pernkopf’s Anatomy is renowned for its precise depictions of the body and its troubling history of its creator raising ethical questions about what to do in the present with works that have harmful pasts.