Pragmatic bioethics / edited by Glenn McGee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGee, Glenn, 1967-

Series:

Basic bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 293 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.

Summary:

Using the perspective of pragmatism to guide the American debate about bioethics.

Contents:

I The Pragmatic Method in Bioethics 1

1 Bioethics Is a Naturalism / Jonathan D. Moreno 3

2 Pragmatic Method and Bioethics / Glenn McGee 17

3 Clinical Pragmatism: A Method of Moral Problem Solving / Joseph J. Fins, Matthew D. Bacchetta, Franklin G. Miller 29

4 Habits of Healing / D. Micah Hester 45

5 Freestanding Pragmatism in Law and Bioethics / John D. Arras 61

II Current Debates and American Philosophers 77

6 The Medical Covenant: A Roycean Perspective / C. Griffin Trotter 79

7 On "Tame" and "Untamed" Death: Jamesian Reflections / William J. Gavin 93

8 On Helping People to Die: A Pragmatic Account / Mary B. Mahowald 109

9 Significance at the End of Life / D. Micah Hester 121

10 William James, Black Elk, and the Healing Act / Bruce Wilshire 137

III Pragmatism and Specific Issues in Bioethics 149

11 Mental Illness: Rights, Competence, and Communication / Beth J. Singer 151

12 Genetics and Pragmatism / Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. 163

13 "Expert Bioethics" as Professional Discourse: The Case of Stem Cells / Paul Root Wolpe, Glenn McGee 181

14 Pragmatism and the Determination of Death / Martin Benjamin 193

15 Dying Old as a Social Problem / John Lachs 207

16 Community, Autonomy, and Managed Care / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262134306

0262632721

OCLC:

50684748