Abstract
The pluralism of methodologies and severe time constraints pose important challenges to pedagogy in clinical ethics. We designed a step-by-step student handbook to operate within such constraints and to respect the methodological pluralism of bioethics and clinical ethics. The handbook comprises six steps: Step 1: What are the facts of the case?; Step 2: What are your obligations to your patient?; Step 3: What are your obligations to third parties to your relationship with the patient?; Step 4: Do your obligations converge or conflict?; Step 5: What is the strongest objection that could be made to the identification of convergence in step 4 or the arguments in step 4? How can this objection be effectively countered?; and Step 6: How could the ethical conflict, or perceived ethical conflict, have been prevented?
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 39-52 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Theoretical Medicine |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 1994 |
Keywords
- bioethics
- clinical ethics
- handbook
- preventive ethics
- teaching
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Medicine (miscellaneous)