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This book provides the first extensive look at how the challenges encountered in the clinical research and policy environments can be framed in a systematic way using a philosophical approach that is sure to inspire debate and discussion for some time. This is precisely what a pragmatic approach to bioethics ought to be doing. Eric M. Meslin, Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts Pragmatic ethics is our best hope to provide morally satisfying answers to the complex questions of a contingent and changing world. This volume approaches medicine's major moral dilemmas in a way that can help citizens work with policymakers to develop medical systems, structures, guidelines, and codes that serve the interests of most of the people most of the time. What an accomplishment! Rosemarie Tong, Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Pragmatic ethics is our best hope to provide morally satisfying answers to the complex questions of a contingent and changing world. This volume approaches medicine's major moral dilemmas in a way that can help citizens work with policymakers to develop medical systems, structures, guidelines, and codes that serve the interests of most of the people most of the time. What an accomplishment! --Rosemarie Tong, Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte This book provides the first extensive look at how the challenges encountered in the clinical research and policy environments can be framed in a systematic way using a philosophical approach that is sure to inspire debate and discussion for some time. This is precisely what a pragmatic approach to bioethics ought to be doing. --Eric M. Meslin, Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts

""This book provides the first extensive look at how the challenges encountered in the clinical research and policy environments can be framed in a systematic way using a philosophical approach that is sure to inspire debate and discussion for some time. This is precisely what a pragmatic approach to bioethics ought to be doing."" Eric M. Meslin, Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts ""Pragmatic ethics is our best hope to provide morally satisfying answers to the complex questions of a contingent and changing world. This volume approaches medicine's major moral dilemmas in a way that can help citizens work with policymakers to develop medical systems, structures, guidelines, and codes that serve the interests of most of the people most of the time. What an accomplishment!"" Rosemarie Tong, Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Glenn McGee is Professor of Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and History and Sociology of Science; Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania; and a Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of the Wharton School of Business. He is the editor of The American Journal of Bioethics (MIT Press) and the coeditor, with Arthur Caplan, of the MIT Press Basic Bioethics series.

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