Improving bioethical decision-making with a little help from legal argumentation

The most appropriate method for clinical decision-making is deliberation. The deliberative procedure aims to achieve wise and prudent decisions about health care taking into account facts, values and norms. Since deliberative reasoning is shared by healthcare professions, ethics and law, this paper...

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Autores:
Seoane, José Antonio
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad Católica de Colombia
Repositorio:
RIUCaC - Repositorio U. Católica
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.ucatolica.edu.co:10983/23198
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10983/23198
Palabra clave:
BIOETHICS
CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING
DELIBERATION
LEGAL ARGUMENTATION
ARGUMENTACIÓN JURÍDICA
BIOÉTICA
DELIBERACIÓN
TOMA DE DECISIONES CLÍNICAS
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Summary:The most appropriate method for clinical decision-making is deliberation. The deliberative procedure aims to achieve wise and prudent decisions about health care taking into account facts, values and norms. Since deliberative reasoning is shared by healthcare professions, ethics and law, this paper introduces the structure and features of the bioethical deliberative procedure and suggests to improve it with some contributions from legal science and theories of argumentation.