Pragmatic bioethics / edited by Glenn McGee.

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.

xvi, 302 pages ; 23 cm.

1st ed.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 289-293) and index

Bioethics is a naturalism / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Pragmatic method and bioethics / Glenn McGee -- Clinical pragmatism : a method of moral problem solving / Joseph J. Fins, Matthew D. Bacchetta, and Franklin G. Miller -- Habits of healing / D. Micah Hester -- Bioethics committee : a consensus-recommendation model / Kelly A. Parker -- Collaboration and casuistry / Mary B. Mahowald -- Medical covenant : a Roycean perspective / C. Griffin Trotter -- On "tame" and "untamed" death : Jamesian reflections / William J. Gavin -- Significance at the end of life / D. Micah Hester -- William James, Black Elk, and the healing act / Bruce Wilshire -- Mental illness : rights, competence, and communication / Beth J. Singer -- Genetics and pragmatism / Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr -- Genetic enhancement of families / Glenn McGee -- Pragmatism and the determination of death / Martin Benjamin -- Dying old as a social problem / John Lachs -- Community, autonomy, and managed care / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley -- Untying the gag : reason in the world of health care reform / John T. Lysaker and Michael Sullivan -- Ethical literacy and cultural competence / Marian Gray Secundy.