Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions Resolving Moral Conflicts in
The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those confli
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 103 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Nicholas Capaldi, College of Business Administration, Loyola University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey Christopher Tollefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., President Loyola University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
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MORAL ACQUAINTANCES AND MORAL DECISIONS RESOLVING MORAL CONFLICTS IN MEDICAL ETHICS
by STEPHEN S. HANSON University of Louisville, KY, USA
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Stephen S. Hanson Department of Philosophy Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-2507-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2508-1 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2508-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009927031 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to all those who helped me along the way, in large and small ways. Special thanks are due to H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., whose continual support for this project helped lead to its completion. Finally, I give my love to Caroline, Camille, and Lena.
Acknowledgement
I would like to thank the original publishers of the following works for their permission to use portions of these works in this book: Portions of chapter two were published in an earlier form as “Engelhardt and Children: The Failure of Libertarian Bioethics in Pediatric Interactions.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 15 (2) June 2005: 179-198. Copyright The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005. Portions of chapter five were published in an earlier form as “Moral Acquaintances: Loewy, Wildes, and Beyond.” HEC Forum 19(3) 2007: 207-225. Copyright Springer 2007. Portions of chapter five come from a paper entitled “Richard Zaner and ‘Standard’ Medical Ethics,” written for the festschrift for Richard Zaner, edited by Osbourne Wiggins, to appear in the same series as this volume.
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1 Justifying Moral Claims in a Pluralistic Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M
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