Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation

1. Front Matter

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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

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.

• UNESCO Declaration on bioethics and human rights
• argumentation in bioethics committees
• bioethical argumentation
• bioethical decision making process
• bioethical decision-making
• bioethics and argumentation
• bioethics and human rights
• clinical decision making
• common morality
• doctrine of the double effect
• health care decision making
• non-discursive dimensions of reasoning
• normative systems theory
• principlism in bioethics
• proportionality versus principlism
• the Belmont Report
• the values-based deliberative approach
• the virtues based-approach
• theory of action
• values and bioethics

• 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

Policies and ethics