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Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation

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Editors:
  1. Pedro Serna

    1. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain

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  2. José-Antonio Seoane

    1. Research Group Philosophy, Constitution and Rationality School of Law, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

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  • The only book dealing with the unavoidable link between bioethics and legal argumentation
  • Accurately describes and sharply assesses the main methodological approaches for clinical decision-making
  • Contains a collection of plural contributions of international scholars on the decisive and underrated topic of bioethical argumentation

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 70)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Principlism in Bioethics

    • Tom L. Beauchamp
    Pages 1-16

  3. Values and Bioethics

    • Diego Gracia
    Pages 17-29

  4. A Human Rights Approach to Bioethics

    • Roberto Andorno
    Pages 31-41

  5. Philosophical Imperialism? A Critical View of North American Principlist Bioethics

    • Carolina Pereira-Sáez
    Pages 43-56

  6. Principlism and Normative Systems

    • Óscar Vergara
    Pages 57-71

  7. Types of Action and Criteria for Individualizing Them: The Case of Omission of Life-Saving Care

    • Pilar Zambrano
    Pages 73-87

  8. Bioethics, Deliberation and Argumentation

    • José-Antonio Seoane
    Pages 89-106

  9. The Principle of Proportionality, Rights Theory and the Double Effect Doctrine

    • Juan Cianciardo
    Pages 107-125

  10. International Bioethics Committees: Conditions for a Good Deliberation

    • Vicente Bellver
    Pages 127-143
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This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for clinical decision-making and argumentation. The first part of the book is devoted to the most developed or promising approaches regarding bioethical argumentation, namely those based on principles, values and human rights. The authors then continue to deal with the contributions and shortcomings of these approaches and suggest further developments by means of substantive and procedural elements and concepts from practical philosophy, normative systems theory, theory of action, human rights and legal argumentation. Furthermore, new models of biomedical and health care decision-making, which overcome the aforementioned criticism and stress the relevance of the argumentative responsibility, are included.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain

    Pedro Serna

  • Research Group Philosophy, Constitution and Rationality School of Law, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    José-Antonio Seoane

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