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020			_qHardback
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100			_a"Mark G Kuczewski," _eEditor
110			_a"Mark G Kuczewski,"
245		0	_aBioethics : _bAncient Themes in Contemporary Issues/ _cMark G Kuczewski
260			_a"Cambridge, Mass :" _bMIT Press. _c2000
300			_a304 pages _billustrations _c24 cm
520			_a"In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethics committees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge is based on experience within the field rather than on universal theoretical propositions, it is open to criticism for its lack of theoretical foundation. Once in the clinic, however, ethicists noted the extent to which medical practice itself combined the certitudes of science with craft forms of knowledge. In an effort to forge a middle path between pure science and applied medical and ethical knowledge, bioethicists turned to the work of classical philosophy, especially the theme of a practical wisdom that entails a variable knowledge of particulars. In this book contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on such pressing bioethical concerns as managed care, euthanasia, suicide, and abortion. Although the contributors write within the limits of their own disciplines, through cross references and counterarguments they engage in fruitful dialogue."
546			_aEnglish
650			_aMedical philosophy. Medical ethics
700			_aRonald Polansky _eEditors
942			_cBooks
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