This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics - e.g. the ownership of
biological material and human cognitive enhancement - successfully can
be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework. This is not intended as
a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics. Rather, the aim here is
to discuss how some key ideas in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, when
interpreted pragmatically, can be a productive way to approach some hot
issues in bioethics. In spite of being a very promising theoretical
perspective virtue ethics has so far been underdeveloped both in
bioethics and neuroethics and most discussions have been conducted in
consequentialist and/or deontological terms.