Pragmatic Bioethics

by Glenn McGee and editor McGee, Glenn

Book Overview

Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262134306
• ISBN13: 9780262134309
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher