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Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology. In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly revised and updated chapters in this second edition include philosophy, religion and theology, virtue and professionalism, casuistry and clinical ethics, law, history, qualitative research, ethnography, quantitative surveys, experimental methods, and economics and decision science. This second edition also includes new chapters on literature and sociology, as well as a second chapter on philosophy which expands the range of philosophical methods discussed to include gender ethics, communitarianism, and discourse ethics. In each of these chapters, contributors provide descriptions of the methods, critiques, and notes on resources and training. ""Methods in Medical Ethics"" is a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, editors, and students in any of the disciplines that have contributed to the field. As a textbook and reference for graduate students and scholars in medical ethics, it offers a rich understanding of the complexities involved in the rigorous investigation of moral questions in medical practice and research.

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Methods in Medical Ethics may be a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and students of biomedical ethics. But it could serve, as well, as a reliable and comprehensive reference for physicians and other health care workers wishing to expand their view and their understanding of the important principles that guide clinical decision making in a complex health care environment. -New Jersey Medicine [A] valuable resource for scholars, students, instructors, and clinicians...a useful tool in the classroom as well as a medium for scholarship and life long learning. -Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy An outstanding achievement. By far the most comprehensive book on research methods in medical ethics to date. Must-reading for any serious student of bioethics. -Mark G. Kuczewski, Loyola University Chicago

No better compliment can be paid to the editors and the contributors of Methods in Medical Ethics than to state that each chapter exemplifies the standards of good scholarship summed up in Sulmasy's concluding discourse on method... A book that will be invaluable for students and teachers alike, a book to read and read again. JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Remarkably well written... Will serve as an excellent introduction to empirical bioethics for audiences from a wide variety of disciplines. AJOB Primary Research

No better compliment can be paid to the editors and the contributors of Methods in Medical Ethics than to state that each chapter exemplifies the standards of good scholarship summed up in Sulmasy's concluding discourse on method... A book that will be invaluable for students and teachers alike, a book to read and read again. -- JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)

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Jeremy Sugarman, MD, is Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine and deputy director for medicine at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, is a Franciscan friar and Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School, and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.

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