Decision making in clinical bioethics: casuistry and moral deliberation

Abstract

In the ethical problems in clinics it is required to appreciate the situation through the use of organized and systematized procedures to assess the situation for decision-making, in order to decrease the typical uncertainty areas of the conflicts of values and duties found in clinics and to reach practical, wise and responsible resolutions. There are several procedures for decision making in clinical bioethics. The article presents the casuistry and deliberation. The aim is to describe the methods based on the publications of its proponents. Both procedures begin with the understanding of the clinical case and consider in the proposed resolution the circumstances and peculiarities of each situation without losing sight of the objective image of ethical duties.