Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Overview 1. The Many Methods of Medical Ethics (Or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)Daniel P. Sulmasy and Jeremy Sugarman 2. A Quarter Century of Empirical Research in Biomedical Ethics Jeremy Sugarman, Ruth Faden, and Alison Boyce Part II: Methods 3. Philosophy: Ethical Principles and Common Morality David DeGrazia and Tom L. Beauchamp 4. Philosophy: Ancient and Contemporary ApproachesDiego Gracia 5. Religion and Theology Lisa Sowle Cahill 6. Codes, Virtue, and Professionalism Edmund D. Pellegrino 7. Casuistry and Clinical Ethics Albert R. Jonsen 8. Legal Methods Mark A. Hall and Nancy M. P. King 9. History Susan E. Lederer 10. Literature Tod Chambers 11. Sociology Raymond De Vries 12. Qualitative Methods Holly A. Taylor, Sara Chandros Hull, and Nancy E. Kass 13. Ethnographic Methods Patricia A. Marshall and Barbara A. Koenig 14. Quantitative Surveys Robert A. Pearlman and Helene E. Starks 15. Experimental Methods Marion Danis, Laura Hanson, and Joanne M. Garrett 16. Economics and Decision Science David A. Asch Part III: Applications 17. Research in Medical Ethics: Scholarship in "Substituted Judgment" Daniel P. Sulmasy 18. Reading the Medical Ethics Literature: A Discourse on Method Daniel P. Sulmasy Contributors Index

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The first edition of Methods in Medical Ethics provided one of the clearest and most accessible introductions to medical ethics... The new chapter on applications of the multiple methods of medical ethics, focusing on the crucial topic of surrogate decision making, provides a model of excellence in scholarship in the field. The contributors-all leading scholars in the field-have taken Methods in Medical Ethics to the next extraordinary level. I look forward to teaching from it for many years to come. -- Laurence B. McCullough, Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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