Health care ethics and casuistry.

Health care ethics and casuistry.

Ethics and health care 'underfunding'.

There are continual “crises” in health care systems worldwide as producer and patient groups unify and decry the “underfunding” of health care. Sometimes this cacophony is the self interest of profit seeking producers and often it is advocacy of unproven therapies. Such pressure is to be expected and needs careful management by explicit rationing criteria which determine who gets access to what...

Health care ethics.

HCE 550 Topics in Bioethics (3 credits) The course is an analysis of some of the important topics in bioethics. Students will familiarize themselves with the ethical questions surrounding major topics in contemporary bioethics. The course will focus on one or more of the following topics: medical research with human subjects, the new genetic medicine, social justice and the delivery of healthca...

Moral reasoning--the unrealized place of casuistry in medical ethics.

If the practice of ethics consists of the justifiable application of moral principles, then the challenge will always be to ensure, first, that the principles are well chosen and, second, that their application to the case in point is overtly justifiable. In this editorial, having briefly mentioned “principlism”, which itself involves the application of ethical principles in practice, we shall ...

Principles of Health Care Ethics

consistently superb treatment of almost every topic. This is accomplished, in part, by the extraordinary cast of contributors, which is composed of sixty-six world-renowned experts in the field. However, someone wishing to be picayune might question the chapter written on medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy (chapter 50) as lacking substance. Whereas the medical aspects of seizure disorde...