Pluralistic Casuistry Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cherry, Mark J. (Editor), Iltis, Ana Smith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 94
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

Baruch A. Brody has been one of the most important voices in bioethics over the last several decades, asking new and challenging questions about a range of problems, examining recalcitrant issues in novel ways, always with the goal of offering practical solutions to complex problems. This volume pre...

Table of Contents:

• Moral Casuistry, Medical Research and Innovation, and Rabbinical Decision-Making
• Moral Casuistry, Medical Research, and Innovation, and Rabbinical Decision-Making
• Pluralistic Moral Casuistry
• Notes Toward a Pluralistic Professional Medical Ethics
• Ethics and Deep Moral Ambiguity
• Moral Judgment and the Ideal Intuitor: Dealing with Moral Confusion and Moral Disagreement
• Casuistry Naturalized
• Jewish Medical Ethics
• Intuitionism, Divine Commands, and Natural Law
• In Case: Contingency and Particularity in Bioethics
• The Euthyphro’s Dilemma Reconsidered: A Variation on a Theme from Brody on Halakhic Method
• Biomedical Public Policy
• The Good (Philosophy), the Bad (Public Policy) and the Ugliness of Blaming Families for Ineffectual Treatments
• A Matter of Obligation: Physicians Versus Clinical Investigators
• Is Withholding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration from PVS Patients Active Euthanasia?
• Critical Application And Analysis
• The Virtue of Integrity in Baruch Brody’s Moral Framework
• Paradigms, Practices and Politics: Ethics and the Language of Human Embryo Transfer/Donation/Rescue/Adoption
• Brody on Passive and Active Euthanasia
• Response To Friends And Criticisms
• Comments on the Essays.