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Title

Case analysis in clinical ethics / edited by Richard Ashcroft ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Ashcroft, Richard E.

Description

xiii, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics is a grounded review from a team of leading ethicists covering the main methods for analysing ethical problems in modern medicine. Anneke Lucassen, a clinician, begins by presenting an ethically challenging genetics case drawn from her clinical experience. It is then analysed from different theoretical points of view. Each ethicist takes a particular approach, illustrating it in action and giving the reader a basic grounding in its central elements. Each chapter can be read on its own, but comparison between them gives the reader a sense of how far methodology in medical ethics matters, and how different theoretical starting points can lead to different practical conclusions. At the end, Dr. Lucassen gives a clinician's response to the various ethical methods described." "Practising clinical ethicists and students on upper level undergraduate and Master's degree courses in medical ethics and applied philosophy will find this invaluable."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Ethical Analysis > methods
• Ethics, Clinical
• Ethics, Clinical > Case Reports
• Family
• Genetic Privacy > ethics
• Genetic Testing > ethics
• Medical ethics > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Philosophical introduction : case analysis in clinical ethics / Richard Ashcroft [and others] -- Families and genetic testing : the case of Jane and Phyllis Anneke Lucassen -- Family access to shared genetic information : an analysis of the narrative / Brian Hurwitz -- A virtue-ethics approach / Alastair Campbell -- Interpretation and dialogue in hermeneutic ethics / Guy Widdershoven -- 'Power, corruption and lies' : ethics and power / Richard Ashcroft -- Reading the genes / Rob Withers -- A utilitarian approach / Julian Savelescu -- A feminist care-ethics approach to genetics / Marian Verkerk -- A conversational approach to the ethics of genetic testing / Michael Parker -- Families and genetic testing : the case of Jane and Phyllis from a four-principles perspective / Raanan Gillon -- A phenomenological approach to bioethics / George Agich -- An empirical approach / Søren Holm -- Response to ethical dissections of the case / Anneke Lucassen -- Philosophical reflections / Michael Parker [and others].

ISBN

• 0521543150 (pbk.)
• 0521835496 (hbk.)

LCCN

• 9780521543156 (pbk.)
• 9780521835497 (hbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library