Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566702208
• ISBN13: 9780521543156
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 8.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"