Bioethics as Methodological Case Resolution: Specification, Specified Principlism and Casuistry
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Bioethics as methodological case resolution: specification, specified principlism and casuistry.
Bioethical decision-making depends on presuppositions about the function and goal of bioethics. The authors in this issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy share the assumption that bioethics is about resolving cases, not about moral theory, and that the best method of bioethical decision-making is that which produces useful answers. Because we have no universally agreed upon background...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0360-5310
DOI: 10.1076/0360-5310(200006)25:3;1-h;ft271