edited by Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel P. Sulmasy
contributions by Lisa Sowle Cahill, Edmund D. Pellegrino, James Hodge Jr., Lawrence O. Gostin, Albert R. Jonsen, Darrell W. Amundsen, Sara Chandros Hull, Holly A. Taylor, Nancy E. Kass, Patricia A. Marshall, Barbara A. Koenig, Robert A. Pearlman, Helene E. Starks, Marion Danis, Laura Hanson, Joanne M. Garrett, David A. Asch, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Gail Henderson, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Jeremy Sugarman, Jeremy Sugarman, Ruth Faden, Judith Weinstein, David DeGrazia and Tom L. Beauchamp
Georgetown University Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-87840-873-3
Library of Congress Classification R724.M43 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 174.2

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.

In this first book to systematically examine, critique, and challenge some of these disciplines and their methods in light of their influence on medical ethics, leading scholars present particular methods that have played significant roles in the field. The methods addressed include philosophy, religion and theology, professional codes, law, casuistry, history, qualitative research, ethnography, quantitative surveys, experimental methods, and economics and decision science. Reviewing each, they provide descriptions of techniques, critiques, and notes on resources and training. Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are used as an illustration of the richness of multidisciplinary work applied to individual issues. Similarly, genetic testing is used as an example of how multiple descriptive methods may privilege certain findings.

Methods in Medical Ethics is a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, editors, and students in any of the disciplines that have contributed to the field. As a textbook and reference for graduate students and scholars in medical ethics, it offers a rich understanding of the complexities of both moral questions and their answers.