How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics

Toulmin, Stephen

doi:10.1353/pbm.1982.0064

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“…The last element we want to highlight is the following: we have deliberately chosen a case of "ordinary" medicine, without presenting a "border case", in order to demonstrate that ethics should deal with ordinary life, as effectively pointed out by Toulmin (17). r E F E r E n c E s…”

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An Ethical Dilemma in the Field of Gynecology

Valera

Terranova

2016

pers.bioet

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Un dilema ético en el campo de la ginecologíaUm dilema ético no campo da ginecologia luca valera 1 corrado terranova 2 AbSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to assess a case report in the field of gynecology, starting from an ethical paradigm that relates primarily to the so-called "sources of morality" (objective structure, circumstances, aim). In order to do so, we first will present four ethical paradigms for the evaluation of clinical cases (preference utilitarianism, principlism, ontologically-grounded personalism and Aristotelian/Thomist objective ethics). After introducing the main aspects of these paradigms and pointing out that what matters in an ethical evaluation is not so much the final judgement, but rather the argument that leads to it, we will assess the case report in light of the chosen paradigm. Lastly, we will outline a possible solution to the problem, starting from the previous ethical evaluation.

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An Ethical Dilemma in the Field of Gynecology

Valera

Terranova

2016

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“…The late, renowned philosopher Stephen Toulmin described in 1982 how medicine had saved the life of ethics [1]. Ethics had lapsed into relativism paradoxically because it took universal principles as its starting point.…”

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“…This methodology, which became best known as the revival of casuistry (i.e., case-based reasoning) in its further development with the venerable bioethicist, Albert Jonsen [3], takes historical context and embedded wisdom seriously. It is an inductive method that can build outward to higher levels of generality and elucidate our communal "forms of life" [1]. That is, we can harvest the lessons we learn in the medical sphere of endeavor to shed light on other aspects of our shared life [3].…”

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“…Is the absolutizing of laws regarding authorized immigration worth undermining our cherished values and institutions and denying our communities the contributions of undocumented immigrants? Toulmin reminds us that morality is to a large extent that which preserves and furthers our institutions and forms of life rather than undermines them [1].…”

Section: Ethics Policy and The Communitymentioning

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How Medicine May Save the Life of US Immigration Policy: From Clinical and Educational Encounters to Ethical Public Policy

Kuczewski¹

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Medicine has a conceptual contribution to make to the immigration debate. Our nation has been unable to move forward with meaningful immigration reform because many citizens seem to assume that immigrants are in the United States to access benefits to which they are not entitled. In contrast, when medicine encounters undocumented immigrants in the health care or medical education setting, it is obvious that their contributions to our health care system are denied by exclusionary laws. When the system is amended to be inclusive, immigrants become contributors to the systems that they access. I illustrate this thesis concerning the benefits of inclusion through an examination of the issues of forced medical repatriation, access to health insurance, and the access of undocumented students to medical education.

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“…Stephen Toulmin 14 claimed that medicine saved the life of ethics by giving it a relevancy that was lost as twentieth century philosophical ethics focused on the analysis of concepts and the justification of theories. This fixation on the formal, theoretical aspects of ethics eclipsed the traditional attention to practical ethical concerns.…”

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What Kind of Doing is Clinical Ethics?

Agich

2005

Theor Med Bioeth

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ABSTRACT. This paper discusses the importance of Richard M. Zaner's work on clinical ethics for answering the question: what kind of doing is ethics consultation? The paper argues first, that four common approaches to clinical ethics -applied ethics, casuistry, principlism, and conflict resolution -cannot adequately address the nature of the activity that makes up clinical ethics; second, that understanding the practical character of clinical ethics is critically important for the field; and third, that the practice of clinical ethics is bound up with the normative commitments of medicine as a therapeutic enterprise.

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How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics

Cited by 259 publications

References 4 publications

An Ethical Dilemma in the Field of Gynecology

An Ethical Dilemma in the Field of Gynecology

How Medicine May Save the Life of US Immigration Policy: From Clinical and Educational Encounters to Ethical Public Policy

What Kind of Doing is Clinical Ethics?

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