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Moral reasoning – the unrealized place of casuistry in medical ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2005

Julian C. Hughes
Julian C. Hughes
Affiliation:
North Tyneside General Hospital and Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]
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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 make the case for casuistry (case-based) reasoning.

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Guest Editorial
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 149 - 154
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© International Psychogeriatric Association 2005