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This is the first book that explains how you actually go about doing good bioethics. John McMillan develops an account of the nature of bioethics; he reveals how a number of methodological spectres have obstructed bioethics; and then he shows how moral reason can be brought to bear upon practical issues via an 'empirical, Socratic' approach.
Cover; The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-Bioethics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: How to Find Your Footing in Bioethics; PART I: Bioethics; 2: What Is Bioethics?; The Origins of Bioethics; My Definition of Bioethics and What It Needs to Do; The Essence of Bioethics; Battin's Trichotomy and Clinical Consultation; Bioethics and Public Policy; Scholarly Bioethics; Moral Reason; Medical Ethics versus Bioethics; Bioethics as Distinct from Applied Ethics; Philosophical Bioethics; Empirical Bioethics; Philosophical Bioethics versus Missionary Bioethics.
Ethics as Distinct from LawConclusions; References; 3: 'Good' Bioethics; No Special Pleading; The Strength of 'No Special Pleading'; Engagement with Experience; Good Bioethics Always Involves Sound Reason; Conclusions; References; PART II: The Spectres of Bioethics; 4: Four Spectres of Bioethics; The Moral Mantra Mistake and the Tedious Theory Tendency; Four Principles and the Search for Theory; The Ethics Sausage Machine; Other Ethics Sausage Makers; Philosopher Kings and Other Queens of the Sciences; The Snooty Specialist Spectre; Other Queens of the Sciences; Sociology 'of ' Bioethics.
Epistemic Humility and Moral TheoryEpistemic Humility and the Additional Complications of Bioethics; A Kantian Argument for Why Bioethics Must Involve Concepts and the Empirical; References; 7: What Is an Ethical Argument?; Building a Case; Picking an Ethical Question or Claim; Constructing a Syllogism; Think Creatively About All of the Issues That Might Be Relevant to That Question; Think About Which Parts of the Argument Are Easy or Hard; Questioning and Examining Factual Claims; Minimize Your Theoretical Assumptions; Freedom and Harm-Based Arguments; References.
8: Speculative Argument and BioethicsSpeculative Practical Reason; Speculative Reason: The Counterexample; Speculative Reason: The Argument by Analogy; Speculative Reason: Deepening Moral Understanding; Speculative Reason: Intuition Pumps; Speculative Reason: The Heuristic Device; Conclusions; References; 9: Drawing Distinctions: Defining, Reclaiming, and Analysing Moral Concepts; Drawing Programmatic Distinctions; Drawing Distinctions That Mark Important Moral Differences; Clarifying the Implications of a Concept; Reclaiming Moral Concepts; Clarifying Concepts; References.
Includes bibliographical references and index.