title: [Methods of clinical ethics].
abstract: Medical ethics decisions always entail a certain amount of difficulty. Clinical alternatives make the adoption of well-founded decisions quite difficult. Each case is different and does not lend itself to a predetermined decision. If a satisfactory method is used to make moral evaluations, serious mistakes can almost always be avoided and defensible decisions made. Medical ethics is many things, but in essence it is necessarily a strategy or method. True professional medical ethics requires a method that leads to moral discernment as well as uniformly appropriate decisions. One of the most important functions of a method is to keep standards of evaluation linked to facts. Good methods prevent medical ethics from falling into the trap of false generalization and keep it rooted in real-life situations.
authors: Department of Philosophy, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania 16444.
authors: J F
authors: JF
authors: Drane
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D008722:Methods; D014481:United States
vernacular_title: Métodos de ética clínica.