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Moral acquaintances : methodology in bioethics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wildes, Kevin Wm. (Kevin William), 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Bioethics.
Ethics, Medical.
Cultural Diversity.
Decision Making.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: methodology and bioethics
  • Pt. 1. Moral friends, moral strangers, and methodology
  • Bioethics and moral acquaintances
  • The emergence of bioethics
  • Moral acquaintances and moral pluralism
  • Procedures and morality
  • Foundational methods
  • A survey of foundational theories in bioethics
  • The limits of foundations: form and matter
  • Ecumenism in bioethics: the appeal to middle-level principles
  • The method of middle-level principles
  • The standard criticisms
  • Postmodernity and principles
  • Principles, cases, and the moral point of view
  • After paradigms: the crisis of secular casuistry
  • Jonsen and Toulmin and the Renaissance of casuistry
  • The context of casuistry
  • Secular casuistry: the paradox of trolleys and transplants
  • Conclusions for bioethics
  • Pt. 2. Moral acquaintances and methodology
  • Communitarian bioethics
  • Particularity, humanity, and community
  • The shapes of moral communities
  • Friends, strangers, and acquaintances
  • The genealogy of agreement and consensus
  • Pluralism and consensus
  • The geography of moral judgment: a spectrum of agreement and disagreement
  • A sociology of agreement
  • Agreement between friends, strangers, and acquaintances
  • Moral acquaintances: proceduralism and organizational ethics
  • Moral acquaintances and procedural bioethics
  • Bioethics, moral acquaintances, and the common morality of proceduralism
  • Organizational ethics.