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I develop two different epistemic roles for emotion and desire. Caring for moral ends and people plays a pivotal though contingent role in ensuring reliable awareness of morally salient details; possession of various emotions and motives is a necessary condition for autonomous understanding of moral concepts themselves. Those who believe such connections compromise the "objective" status of morality tend to assume rather than argue for the bifurcated conception of reason and affect this essay challenges.

""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Acting in the Light of a Fact""; ""2 Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?""; ""3 The Ideal of Orthonomous Action, or the How and Why of Buck-Passing""; ""4 Dancy on Buck-Passing""; ""5 Are Egoism and Consequentialism Self-Refuting?""; ""6 In Defence of Non-Deontic Reasons""; ""7 The Deontic Structure of Morality""; ""8 Morality and Principle""; ""9 Moral Particularism: Ethical Not Metaphysical?""; ""10 A Quietist Particularism""; ""11 Contours of the Practical Landscape""; ""12 Why Holists Should Love Organic Unities""

With a $3 billion investment by the federal government, the National Children's Study (NCS) recently began recruitment. The NCS is a golden—and potentially missed—opportunity to study one of the most underrepresented populations in clinical research: pregnant women.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Treating Bioethics -- 2 Religion, Superstition, and Medicine -- 3 Patient Multiplicity, Medical Rituals, and Good Dying: Some Wittgensteinian Observations -- 4 ''Unlike Calculating Rules''? Clinical Judgment, Formalized Decision Making, andWittgenstein -- 5 Wittgenstein's Startling Claim: Consciousness and the Persistent Vegetative State -- 6 Attitudes, Souls, and Persons: Children with Severe Neurological Impairment -- 7 Why Wittgenstein's Philosophy Should Not Prevent Us from Taking Animals Seriously -- 8 Injustice and Animals -- 9 Bioethics,Wisdom, and Expertise -- 10 Wittgensteinian Lessons on Moral Particularism -- 11 Wittgenstein: Personality, Philosophy, Ethics -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics addresses these provocative issues from an emerging standpoint that is attentive to race, gender, class, disability, privacy, and notions of democracy—a ";new biopolitics."; This authoritative volume provides an overview for those grappling with the profound dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to this new perspective grounded in social justice and public interest values