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Title

A Matter of principles? : ferment in U.S. bioethics / edited by Edwin R. DuBose, Ronald P. Hamel, Laurence J. O'Connell.

Publication

Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press International, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• DuBose, Edwin R.
• Hamel, Ronald P., 1946-
• O'Connell, Laurence J.
• Park Ridge Center (Ill.)

Description

xviii, 381 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Bioethics today has become a subject of wide public concern. Almost every one of its tenets is being seriously questioned and likely to be reformulated. Moreover, the pressure on bioethics continues to mount as the number of moral conflicts that buffet our society increases. What, then, will bioethics look like a decade from now? In the variety of approaches that have been employed in the practice of bioethics, one has dominated in the United States in the last decade and a half. That approach is "principlism", the use of moral principles to address theoretical issues and to resolve conflicts at the bedside. Recently, however, bioethicists and others increasingly have realized the limitations of principlism and are calling for the development of alternative approaches such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, narrative ethics, casuistry, and virtue ethics. This book maps the debate over principlism and the future direction of U.S. bioethics. Part One consists of a sociological description of U.S. bioethics at the beginning of the 1990s, along with a defense of principlism by one of its major proponents. Part Two maps cross-cultural critiques of principlism, while Part Three covers five alternatives to it. Three essays in Part Four - by a bioethicist, a physician, and a theologian - reflect on the future of U.S. bioethics, principlism, and its alternatives. The Afterword emphasizes the place of religion and theological discourse in the alternative approaches and in the future of bioethics.

Subject

• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethics > United States
• Medical ethics > United States
• Bioethics
• United States

Note

• "A book from the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one. Principlism in U.S. biomedical ethics : -- 1. The entry of U.S. bioethics into the 1990s: a sociological analysis / Renée C. Fox -- 2. Principles-oriented bioethics: an analysis and assessment from within / James F. Childress -- Part two. Principlism and its critics : -- 3. Principlism: a western European appraisal / Henk ten Have -- 4. Community and compassion: a Theravada Buddhist look at principlism / Pinit Ratanakul -- 5. Bioethics in a liberationist key / Márcio Fabri dos Anjos -- 6. European-American ethos and principlism: an African-American challenge / Cheryl J. Sanders -- 7. A feminist critique of biomedical principlism / Christine E. Gudorf -- 8. Principlism and religion: the law and the prophets / Courtney S. Campbell -- Part three. Currents in U.S. biomedical ethics : -- 9. Experience and moral life: a phenomenological approach to bioethics / Richard M. Zaner -- 10. Toward a hermeneutical bioethics / Drew Leder -- 11. Narrative contributions to medical ethics : recognition, formulation, interpretation, and validation in the practice of the ethicist / Rita Charon -- 12. Character and the moral life : a virtue approach to biomedical ethics / James F. Drane -- 13. Casuistry and clinical ethics / Stephen Toulmin __ Part four. Horizons in U.S. biomedical ethics : -- 14. Rejecting principlism, affirming principles : a philosopher reflects on the ferment in U.S. bioethics / Larry R. Churchill -- 15. Clinical medicine and biomedical ethics in the 199s : a physician reflects / Christine K. Cassel -- 16. Beyond principlism is not enough : a theologian reflects on the real challenge for U.S. biomedical ethics / Richard A. McCormick -- Afterword / James P. Wind.

ISBN

1563380811 :

LCCN

^^^94000033^

OCLC

• 29702329
• SCSB-10233632

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library