Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics

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.