Case analysis in clinical ethics /
edited by Richard Ashcroft [and others].
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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].
Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics is an eclectic 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, Anneke 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.