xvi 302 pages, indexed, annotated, selected bibliography, a title in The Vanderbilt library of American philosophy. The front board is lightly shelf stained, else clean, unmarked and solid. CONTENTS: Pt. 1. The Pragmatic Method in Bioethics 1. Bioethics Is a Naturalism / Jonathan D. Moreno 2. Pragmatic Method and Bioethics / Glenn McGee 3. Clinical Pragmatism: A Method of Moral Problem Solving / Joseph J. Fins, Matthew D. Bacchetta and Franklin G. Miller 4. Habits of Healing / D. Micah Hester 5. The Bioethics committee: a consensus-recommendation model/ Kelly A. Parker Pt. 2. Current Debates and American Philosophers 6. Collaboration and casuistry / Mary B. Mahowald 7. The Medical Covenant: A Roycean Perspective / C. Griffin Trotter 8. On "Tame" and "Untamed" Death: Jamesian Reflections / William J. Gavin 9. Significance at the End of Life / D. Micah Hester 10. William James, Black Elk, and the Healing Act / Bruce Wilshire Pt. 3. Pragmatism and Specific Issues in Bioethics 11. Mental Illness: Rights, Competence, and Communication / Beth J. Singer 12. Genetics and Pragmatism / Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. 13. "Genetic enhancement of families / Glenn McGee 14. Pragmatism and the Determination of Death / Martin Benjamin 15. Dying Old as a Social Problem / John Lachs 16. Community, Autonomy, and Managed Care / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley. 17. Untying the gag: reason in the world of health care reform / John T. Lysaker and Michael Sullivan 18. Ethical literacy and cultural competence / Marian Gray Secundy.