casuistry
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Research
701 papers- Casuistry as methodology in clinical ethics.Theoretical medicine · 1991
- Methods and principles in biomedical ethics.Journal of medical ethics · 2003
- Casuistry: On a Method of Ethical Judgement in Patient Care.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2020
- Casuistry in medical ethics: rehabilitated, or repeat offender?Theoretical medicine · 1994
- Casuistry and principlism: the convergence of method in biomedical ethics.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 1998
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Casuistry ( ) is a process of reasoning for resolving an ethical dilemma (moral problem) either by extracting or by extending abstract rules from a particular case of conscience, and reapplying those abstract rules to other, different ethical dilemmas. Casuistry is a method of reasoning common to applied ethics and jurisprudence. Moreover, in philosophy, the term casuistry is a pejorative criticism of the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in ethical questions, as in the case of sophistry. As a method of reasoning, casuistry is both the: