PHL 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Casuistry
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Philosophers look at both sides and analyze then. Sensitize you and make you a better health care provider. Very important as it looks at cases and looks at how to go about it. Casuistry is more specific case based approach. Narrative does not really talk about method but want to emphasize the idea of stories. Take the mess of details and sort them in a more orderly fashion. What the patient wants and it might not align with doctors advice. What the end looks like for the and how they will be after the choice is made. If current is poor then they make a decision based on that. Social laws as to what can be done. Basic moral rules that we live by. Look for cases that are similar to it. It can function as a paradigm case good example. Where the morally right and wrong thing is very clear.