Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people contributed to the completion of this project. I would like to thank in particular Mark Aulisio, Jana Craig, and John Tomkowiak for comments and discussions that greatly improved the arguments in this book, and Laura Dillon and LaVar Matthews for their help in preparing the manuscript. The editorial help of Julie McCarthy at the Johns Hopkins University Press was particularly valuable. I would also like to thank my parents, Jerrold and Carol May, for their support in my career. Finally, I am grateful to the editors of several journals, in which some of the arguments and materials in this book have appeared: “Reassessing the Reliability of Advance Directives,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6, no. 3 (1997): 325–38; “Assessing Competency without Judging Merit,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 9, no. 3 (1998): 247–57; “Bioethics in a Liberal Society ,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy 13, no. 1 (1999): 1–19; and “Rights of Conscience in Health Care,” Social Theory and Practice 27, no. 1 (2001): 111–28. This page intentionally left blank BIOETHICS IN A LIBERAL SOCIETY This page intentionally left blank ...