Methods in Medical Ethics

Jeremy Sugarman

ISBN 10: 1589017013 / ISBN 13: 9781589017016

Published by Georgetown University Press Okt 2010, 2010

About this Item

Neuware - In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring the many methods of medical ethics together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly revised and updated chapters include philosophy, religion and theology, virtue and professionalism, casuistry and clinical ethics, law, history, qualitative research, ethnography, quantitative surveys, experimental methods, and economics and decision science. This second edition also includes new chapters on literature and sociology, as well as a second chapter on philosophy which expands the range of philosophical methods discussed to include gender ethics, communitarianism, and discourse ethics. In each of these chapters, contributors provide descriptions of the method, critiques, and notes on resources and training.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Methods in Medical Ethics
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press Okt 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589017013
• ISBN 13: 9781589017016
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 255W x 177H x 19D millimeters 255 millimeters width by 177 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 666 grams

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Synopsis

Hailed by Mark Kuczewski as an "outstanding achievement," and "must-reading for any serious student of bioethics," Methods in Medical Ethics was the first systematic examination of how the methods and analyses of a wide variety of disciplines--such as anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, law, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology--could illuminate the subject of medicine and morality. In the ten years since the publication of the book educational programs in medical ethics have proliferated, as has the volume of literature in the field. The methods employed by scholars in all the disciplines working in medical ethics have continued to grow and evolve, requiring that the editors rethink and retool the book for a new generation of readers. In this second edition all chapters have been be revised and updated, with stronger and more explicit connections between methodology and the field of medical ethics. The new edition also features the following changes: First, the editors have expanded the book's coverage of philosophical methods by including a new chapter that analyzes various challenges to the traditional paradigm: gender ethics, virtue ethics, communitarianism, and discourse ethics. Second, it features a new chapter on literature and medicine, a subfield that has greatly influenced practices in clinical ethics. Third, it includes a new empirical chapter, covering the discipline of sociology. As the editors write in the foreword, medical ethics is a multi-disciplinary field that they hope will become ever more interdisciplinary.

About the Author

Jeremy Sugarman, MD, is Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine and deputy director for medicine at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, is a Franciscan friar and Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School, and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.