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.

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