Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions Resolving Moral Conflicts in Medical Ethics /

• Main Author: Hanson, Stephen S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 103
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Social sciences.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2508-1

The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those conflicts. This work presents a means for taking se...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Justifying Moral Claims in a Pluralistic Society
• 2: Engelhardt and the Content-Free (?) Principle of Permission
• 3: The Four-Principles Approach: An Appeal to the Common-Morality for Resolution and Justification
• 4: Casuistry in a Pluralistic Society
• 5: Moral Acquaintanceships as a Means of Conflict Resolution
• Bibliography; Index.