Using the perspective of pragmatism to guide the American debate about bioethics.

A survey of the emerging field of neuroethics that calls for a multidisciplinary, pragmatic approach for tackling key issues and improving patient care. Today t

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key current debates in bioethics in the areas including o

Bioethics is a field of inquiry and as such is fundamentally an epistemic discipline. Knowing how we make moral judgments can bring into relief why certain argu

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation? And what about this counselling is ethical? The book explains the background of the development of clinical eth