The Methods of Bioethics

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I hope that this book becomes required reading for all students writing essays in bioethics, at the very least at postgraduate level. It should help to dispel the current confusion between the normative and descriptive aspects of the discipline. * Alastair Campbell, Institute of Medical Ethics, UK * The quality of the writing is high, and the coverage is broad and appropriate. Each chapter is clear and stands on its own feet, so that using the book will be straightforward. The accessibility of the writing is high, so that it is suitable for advanced students, but the arguments are presented clearly and robustly enough to interest the working scholar in the field. * Angus Dawson, Director of Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney * It is really surprising that there is so little written on the methodology of bioethics from the perspective of philosophical bioethics. This book will be central to all future discussion of these issues * Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary University of London * This book can also be used to connect students of philosophy with students of medicine, law, sociology and history, with the aim of jointly exploring problematic practical situations. Thus, I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more and/or teach about the methodologies of bioethics. * Iva Martonic, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy * McMillan's analysis of bioethics will serve best as a solid foundation for advanced bioethical inquiry. * W. Simkulet, CHOICE * McMillan presents an innovative, historically aware, and zeitgeist-capturing manifesto for contemporary bioethics ... Overall, this book serves not only as a fresh foundation on which bioethicists from all disciplines can build, but as a provocative challenge to traditional theory-laden ways of "doing bioethics." * Jonathan Lewis, The American Journal of Bioethics *