Pragmatic Bioethics

by McGee, Glenn

• ISBN13: 9780826513212
• ISBN10: 0826513212
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
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
Notes	257	(32)
Selected Bibliography	289	(6)
Contributors	295	(4)
Index	299