Methods in medical ethics
Subtitle: critical perspectives
By: Tom Tomlinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.; Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780195161243
Subjects: Medical Ethics
Description: This book systematically reviews a variety of methods for addressing ethical problems in medicine, accounting for both their weaknesses and strengths. Illustrated throughout with specific cases or controversies, the book aims to develop an informed eclecticism that knows how to pick the right tool for the right job.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The indispensability of principles; title: The limits of principles; title: Putting principles in context : balancing, specification, and reflective equilibrium; title: Casuistry : ruled by cases; title: Narrative ethics : the uses of stories; title: Feminism, context and care; title: Virtue theory; title: Fitting methods to cases.