Methods of bioethics : an essay in meta-bioethics / John McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillan, John, Dr., author.

Series:

Issues in biomedical ethics.

Issues in biomedical ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Medical Subjects:

Bioethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 186 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essay in meta-bioethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This text explains how you actually go about doing good bioethics. John McMillan develops an account of the nature of bioethics; he reveals how a number of methodological spectres have obstructed bioethics; and then he shows how moral reason can be brought to bear upon practical issues via an 'empirical, Socratic' approach.

Contents:

How to find your footing in bioethics

Part I: Bioethics: What is bioethics?

Good bioethics

Part II: The spectres of bioethics: Four spectres of bioethics

The fact value spectre

Part III: The methods of bioethics

Empirical, Socratic bioethics

What is an ethical argument?

Speculative argument and bioethics

Drawing distinctions: defining, reclaiming and analysing moral concepts

Drawing distinctions: novel, sublime and slippery moral concepts

What it is to reason about ethics

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-255764-5

0-19-186288-6

0-19-255763-7