A Historical Perspective of Casuistry and its Application to Contemporary Biomedical Ethics

A generally accepted definition of casuistry taken from the Encyclopedia of Catholic History, Bunson Matthew . ed. Huntington. IN: Our Sunday Visitor Press. 1995. and Encyclopedia of Catholicism, Richard McBrien. ed. San Francisco: Harper, 1995.

Zaner Richard M. “Voices and Time: The Venture of Clinical Ethics.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (1993) 9–31.

Zaner Richard M. “Voices and Time: The Venture of Clinical Ethics.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (1993) 9–31.

Edward D. Pellegrino. “The Metamorphosis of Medical Ethics - A 30 Year Perspective.” JAMA 269 (1993) 1158–62.

Arras John D. “Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 16 (1991) 31–33.

Jonsen Albert R. The New Medicine & The Old Ethics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1990) 55.

Jonsen Albert R. The New Medicine & The Old Ethics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1990), 56.

A comprehensive review of the genesis of “case-based” reasoning as an ethical model can be found in Jonsen Albert R. , and Toulmin Stephen The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning, (Berkeley: The University of California Press. 1988).

Biblical references, unless otherwise noted, are from the New American Bible. © 1991 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, D.C.

Stravinskas Peter . ed. Catholic Encyclopedia (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor. 1991) 179.

Stravinskas Peter . ed. Catholic Encyclopedia (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor. 1991) 179.

O'Connell Timothy E. Principles for a Catholic Morality (San Francisco: Harper, 1990) 12.

Lynch John E. “Casuistry.” Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Corp., 1993).

Lea H.C. A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church (New York: Greenwood Press. 1969) 228.

Wildes Kevin Wm. “Respondeo: Method and Content in Casuistry,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 19 (1994) 115–119.

McBrien , The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Lynch , The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Wildes Kevin Wm. “The Priesthood of Bioethics and the Return of Casuistry,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (1993) 33–49.

McBrien . The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Wildes . The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

A presentation of some of the major moral theories currently at play in bioethics can be found in: P. Singer, Practical Ethics (London: Cambridge University Press, 1979); R.M. Veatch, A Theory of Medical Ethics (New York: Basic Books, 1981): N. Daniels, Just Health Care (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985): E. Pellegrino and D. Thomasma. A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice (New York: Oxford University Press. 1981).

Brody Baruch A. Life and Death Decision Making (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

Engelhardt H.T. Jr. The Foundations of Bioethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

Jonsen Toulmin The Foundations of Bioethics

Various discussions of this topic can be found in: Albert R. Jonsen. “Can an Ethicist be a Consultant?” in Abernathy V. (ed.) Frontiers in Medical Ethics (Cambridge. MA: Ballinger. 1980) 157–71: idem. “Casuistry and Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 7 (1986) 65-74: idem, “Casuistry.” in J. Childress and Macgvarrie (eds.) Dictionary of Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster. 1986) 78-80: S. Toulmin. “The Tyranny of Principles.” Hastings Center report 11 (1981) 31-39: Jonsen and Toulmin, The Foundations of Bioethics.

Arras , Various discussions of this topic can be found in: Albert R. Jonsen. “Can an Ethicist be a Consultant?” in Abernathy V. (ed.) Frontiers in Medical Ethics (Cambridge. MA: Ballinger. 1980) 157–71: idem. “Casuistry and Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 7 (1986) 65-74: idem, “Casuistry.” in J. Childress and Macgvarrie (eds.) Dictionary of Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster. 1986) 78-80: S. Toulmin. “The Tyranny of Principles.” Hastings Center report 11 (1981) 31-39: Jonsen and Toulmin

Arras , Various discussions of this topic can be found in: Albert R. Jonsen. “Can an Ethicist be a Consultant?” in Abernathy V. (ed.) Frontiers in Medical Ethics (Cambridge. MA: Ballinger. 1980) 157–71: idem. “Casuistry and Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 7 (1986) 65-74: idem, “Casuistry.” in J. Childress and Macgvarrie (eds.) Dictionary of Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster. 1986) 78-80: S. Toulmin. “The Tyranny of Principles.” Hastings Center report 11 (1981) 31-39: Jonsen and Toulmin

Arras , Various discussions of this topic can be found in: Albert R. Jonsen. “Can an Ethicist be a Consultant?” in Abernathy V. (ed.) Frontiers in Medical Ethics (Cambridge. MA: Ballinger. 1980) 157–71: idem. “Casuistry and Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 7 (1986) 65-74: idem, “Casuistry.” in J. Childress and Macgvarrie (eds.) Dictionary of Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster. 1986) 78-80: S. Toulmin. “The Tyranny of Principles.” Hastings Center report 11 (1981) 31-39: Jonsen and Toulmin

Jonsen Albert R. “Casuistry as Methodology in Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 12 (1991) 295–307. The author proposes that classical casuistry was not closely associated with any ethical theory, although its practitioners worked within the conceptual framework of “natural law.”

Beauchamp Childress Jonsen Albert R. “Casuistry as Methodology in Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 12 (1991) 295–307. The author proposes that classical casuistry was not closely associated with any ethical theory, although its practitioners worked within the conceptual framework of “natural law.”

Wildes Jonsen Albert R. “Casuistry as Methodology in Clinical Ethics.” Theoretical Medicine 12 (1991) 295–307. The author proposes that classical casuistry was not closely associated with any ethical theory, although its practitioners worked within the conceptual framework of “natural law.”