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Rev Kevin S.J. Wildes - Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics - 9780268034528 - V9780268034528
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Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics

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Description for Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics Paperback. The author of this text argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirrors the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The different methods that have been used in the field reflect the different moral views found in a pluralistic society. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.

From decisions about the end of life to choices about the creation of life and, more recently, to questions concerning the cost and accessibility of health care, bioethics is a field of vigorous and sometimes rancorous public debate. Indeed the moral controversies and dilemmas of medicine and health care often propel bioethics into newspaper headlines and television talk shows.

Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics is not part of the standard repertory of books that explore and offer guidance on a particular issue in bioethics. The question Kevin Wm. Wildes poses is not what we can do morally in a field ... Read more

Wildes argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirror the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The different methods that have been used in the field reflect the different moral views found in a pluralistic society. Rather than assume that there is one method for all or that we are lost in deep moral pluralism, Wildes argues that we can imagine ourselves as moral acquaintances. Key to understanding our acquaintanceship are the procedures that bind us together and the moral justifications and assumptions for those procedures.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268034528
SKU
V9780268034528
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About Rev Kevin S.J. Wildes
Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. is Associate Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and of Medicine at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae (1997) and Infertility: A Crossroad of Faith, Medicine, and Technology (1996).

Reviews for Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics
“Wildes (Georgetown Univ.) offers a concise, topical book concerning the paradigms involved in bioethics methodology. He takes the unique perspective that there are many methodological issues in bioethics but we can come to understand how we are all bound together as acquaintances in a similar process. The first part of the book deals with the emergence, early processes, and moral ... Read more

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