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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.
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Unlike most books on bioethics, this work does not focus on moral reactions to controversy, but rather on how we conceive of and define the controversy, and how we then seek a moral course of action. Wildes (associate director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics; assistant professor, philosophy, medicine, Georgetown University) argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirror the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society, and that the key to understanding this pluralism is to understand the procedures that bind us together plus the moral justifications of and assumptions for those procedures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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