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Second edition. By H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 446 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-505736-8.

This is one of the most brilliant books to appear in the field of bioethics, and also one of the most troubling. It is not surprising to hear that we live in a pluralistic society and that the pluralism complicates ethical and political theory. The genius of the second edition of The Foundations of Bioethics by H. Tristram Engelhardt is that it makes clear just how terribly difficult deliberations about such theory really are. In fact, he shows persuasively that the Enlightenment project of providing a rationally grounded, content-full morality for bioethics cannot be realized.

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