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The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-Bioethics (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) by Dr. John McMillan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-Bioethics (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) about?
Bioethics has made a mistake about its methods, and this has led not only to too much theorizing, but also fragmentation within bioethics. The unhelpful disputes between those who think bioethics needs to be more philosophical, more sociological, more clinical or more empirical, continue. While each of these claims will have __some__ point, they obscure what should be common to all instances of bioethics. Moreover, they provide another phantom that can lead newcomers to bioethics down blind alleyways stalked by bristling sociologists and philosophers. The method common to all bioethics is bringing moral reason to bear upon ethical issues, and it is more accurate and productive to clarify what this involves than to stake out a methodological patch that shows why one discipline is the most important. This book develops an account of the nature of bioethics and then explains how a number of methodological spectres have obstructed bioethics becoming what it should. The final part of this book explains how moral reason can be brought to bear upon practical issues via an ‘empirical, Socratic’ approach.
Who reads The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-Bioethics (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dr. John McMillan
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192557636
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Philosophy, Science