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Pragmatic bioethics

"Modern science and medicine have ushered in a century of amazing discovery and tough choices. In this authoritative and impassioned book, Glenn McGee and other leading writers in American philosophy and medicine offer a new theory of bioethics using the uniquely American approach to ethics known as pragmatism. In eighteen clear and compelling essays, Pragmatic Bioethics addresses some of the newest questions in medicine, including cloning, genetic testing, and human enhancement. These essays also struggle in a new way with perennial issues in biomedicine, including care for the poor and the aging. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 1999
Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, Tenn., 1999
xvi, 302 pages ; 23 cm.
9780826513205, 9780826513212, 0826513204, 0826513212
39202230
Acknowledgmentsvii
Introductionix
Glenn McGee
PART ONE: The Pragmatic Method in Bioethics
Bioethics Is a Naturalism
5(13)
Jonathan D. Moreno
Pragmatic Method and Bioethics
18(12)
Glenn McGee
Clinical Pragmatism: A Method of Moral Problem Solving
30(15)
Joseph J. Fins
Matthew D. Bacchetta
Franklin G. Miller
Habits of Healing
45(15)
D. Micah Hester
The Bioethics Committee: A Consensus-Recommendation Model
60(13)
Kelly A. Parker
PART TWO: Current Debates and American Philosophers
Collaboration and Casuistry
73(11)
Mary B. Mahowald
The Medical Covenant: A Roycean Perspective
84(13)
C. Griffin Trotter
On ``Tame'' and ``Untamed'' Death: Jamesian Reflections
97(16)
William J. Gavin
Significance at the End of Life
113(16)
D. Micah Hester
William James, Black Elk, and the Healing Act
129(12)
Bruce Wilshire
PART THREE: Pragmatism and Specific Issues in Bioethics
Mental Illness: Rights, Competence, and Communication
141(11)
Beth J. Singer
Genetics and Pragmatism
152(16)
Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.
Genetic Enhancement of Families
168(13)
Glenn McGee
Pragmatism and the Determination of Death
181(13)
Martin Benjamin
Dying Old as a Social Problem
194(10)
John Lachs
Community, Autonomy, and Managed Care
204(24)
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
Untying the Gag: Reason in the World of Health Care Reform
228(18)
John T. Lysaker
Michael Sullivan
Ethical Literacy and Cultural Competence
246(11)
Marian Gray Secundy
Notes257(32)
Selected Bibliography289(6)
Contributors295(4)
Index299