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Life and Death Decision Making - Couverture rigide

Brody, Baruch A.

 
9780195050073: Life and Death Decision Making
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 019505007X ISBN 13 : 9780195050073
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1988

Synopsis

This book demonstrates that moral reasoning can provide practical help in making judgements about how to handle particular clinical cases. It clearly explains the way in which conflicting moral considerations must be taken into account in medical decision-making and how their weight can be increased or decreased by specific factors. One of the book's greatest strengths is the cases - forty, all based on actual cases the author has encountered - which are constructed to convey the complexities of real-life support cases. They are difficult cases whose presentation and discussion will challenge readers, clarify the ethical issues involved, and indicate how theory and practice can be integrated.

The first four chapters deal with moral theory, the last three chapters present cases and apply theory to their resolution. The author's approach is pluralistic in that it supposes that there are many different moral appeals that are irreducible to each other, often in conflict with each other, and yet necessary to complement each other. It is casuistical in that it attends to the range of differences between particular cases and attempts to apply appropriately the different moral appeals to particular cases in different ways.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book demonstrates that moral reasoning can provide practical help in making judgements about how to handle particular clinical cases. It clearly explains the way in which conflicting moral considerations must be taken into account in medical decision-making and how their weight can be increased or decreased by specific factors. One of the book's greatest strengths is the cases - forty, all based on actual cases the author has encountered - which are constructed to convey the complexities of real-life support cases. They are difficult cases whose presentation and discussion will challenge readers, clarify the ethical issues involved, and indicate how theory and practice can be integrated. The first four chapters deal with moral theory, the last three chapters present cases and apply theory to their resolution. The author's approach is pluralistic in that it supposes that there are many different moral appeals that are irreducible to each other, often in conflict with each other, and yet necessary to complement each other. It is casuistical in that it attends to the range of differences between particular cases and attempts to apply appropriately the different moral appeals to particular cases in different ways.

Revue de presse

The book is a well written exploration of medical ethics that is challenging and informative. (British Medical Journal)

Because it is an enjoyable and instructive read, this book does further the argument in favour of using casuistry in medical ethics. (Bulletin of Medical Ethics)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019505007X
ISBN 13 
9780195050073
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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