Case Analysis In Clinical Ethics

by Edited by Richard Ashcroft , Anneke Lucassen , Michael Parker , Marian Verkerk , Guy Widdershoven

• ISBN13: 9780521543156
• ISBN10: 0521543150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Philosophical introduction: case analysis in clinical ethics	1	(6)
Richard Ashcroft
Michael Parker
Marian Verkerk
Guy Widdershoven
Families and genetic testing: the case of Jane and Phyllis	7	(20)
Anneke Lucassen
Appendix I Family diagram	18	(1)
Appendix II Patient information leaflet	19	(8)
Family access to shared genetic information: an analysis of the narrative	27	(18)
Brian Hurwitz
A virtue-ethics approach	45	(12)
Alastair Campbell
Interpretation and dialogue in hermeneutic ethics	57	(20)
Guy Widdershoven
`Power, corruption and lies': ethics and power	77	(18)
Richard Ashcroft
Reading the genes	95	(20)
Rob Withers
A utilitarian approach	115	(18)
Julian Savulescu
A feminist care-ethics approach to genetics	133	(16)
Marian Verkerk
A conversational approach to the ethics of genetic testing	149	(16)
Michael Parker
Families and genetic testing: the case of Jane and Phyllis from a four-principles perspective	165	(22)
Raanan Gillon
A phenomenological approach to bioethics	187	(14)
George Agich
An empirical approach	201	(12)
Soren Holm
Response to ethical dissections of the case	213	(12)
Anneke Lucassen
Philosophical reflections	225	(6)
Michael Parker
Richard Ashcroft
Marian Verkerk
Guy Widdershoven
Index	231