Methods in Medical Ethics: Second Edition 2010

Hailed as an 'outstanding achievement' and a 'must-read for any serious student of bioethics', this book is the first systematic examination of the methods and analyses of a wide variety of disciplines - such as economic anthropology, epidemiology, health research, law, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology and theology. In this second edition of the book, the editors have expanded the scope on philosophical methods, which analyses various challenges to the traditional paradigm: gender ethics, virtue ethics, communitarianism and discourse ethics. It also includes a new chapter on literature and medicine, a subfield that has had a profound impact on the practice of clinical ethics. Third, it includes a new empirical chapter covering the discipline of sociology. As the editors write in the introduction, medical ethics is an interdisciplinary field that requires a broad view.