Case analysis in clinical ethics /
edited by Richard Ashcroft [and others].
- xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophical introduction : case analysis in clinical ethics / Families and genetic testing : the case of Jane and Phyllis / Family access to shared genetic information : an analysis of the narrative / A virtue-ethics approach / Interpretation and dialogue in hermeneutic ethics / 'Power, corruption and lies' : ethics and power / Reading the genes / A utilitarian approach / A feminist care-ethics approach to genetics / A conversational approach to the ethics of genetic testing / Families and genetic testing : the case of Jane and Phyllis from a four-principles perspective / A phenomenological approach to bioethics / An empirical approach / Response to ethical dissections of the case / Philosophical reflections / Richard Ashcroft, Michael Parker, Marian Verkerk and Guy Widdershoven -- Anneke Lucassen -- Brian Hurwitz -- Alastair Campbell -- Guy Widdershoven -- Richard Ashcroft -- Rob Withers -- Julian Savulescu -- Marian Verkerk -- Michael Parker -- Raanan Gillon -- George Agich -- Soren Holm -- Anneke Lucassen -- Michael Parker, Richard Ashcroft, Marian Verkerk and Guy Widdershoven. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
"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.