Albert R Jonsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1503642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert R Jonsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonsen |
| SIGNATURE | JONSEN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Back to the Rough Ground: Phronesis" and "Techne" in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle by Joseph Dunne
book, and I willingly comply with his request, though I can hardly think that any words of mine will add to the value of the remarkable record of anthropological research which he has given us in this volume.My observations, such as they are, will deal partly with the writer's method and partly with the matter of his book.In regard to method, Dr. Malinowski has done his work, as it appears to me, under the best conditions and in the manner calcul…
Casuistry
A word coined, and almost always used, with a pejorative intent: it refers to the ability of clever and devious persons to argue, under the cover of specious moral reasons, for the rightness of their own case. Historically, this negative meaning arose out of theological disputes of the seventeenth century. At that time, Roman Catholic theologians commonly presented “cases of conscience,” short analyses of a wide variety of moral dilemmas, to educ…
The Ethics of Organ Transplantation: A Brief History
The pauses the transplant community has taken, at various times throughout the history of transplantation, to make sure that transplantation was truly a boon to patients represent genuine ethical engagement
Penser par cas
Qu’est-ce que penser par cas ? Comment raisonne-t-on à partir de la description de configurations singulières et dans quelle mesure peut‐on prétendre généraliser à partir d’elles ? Le problème n’est pas nouveau. Les casuistiques morales, religieuses, juridiques, la démarche clinique associée à la tradition médicale en sont autant d’exemples attestés dans le long terme. De façons diverses, ces formes anciennes illustrent une voie qui diffère à la …
Beating up Bioethics
Social responsibilities of bioethics
Beating up Bioethics
Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness (review)
The recent report issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err Is Human, 1 propelled into public and political view the unacceptable rates of mortality and morbidity incurred by patients in the course of their health care. Summarizing studies done over the last decade, it stated that medical errors kill between forty-four thousand and ninety-eight thousand people annually, and that the costs of [End Page 617] these errors amount to $2 billio…
Present at the Conception
The Birth of Bioethics
Bioethics represents a dramatic revision of the centuries-old ethics that governed the behaviour of physicians and their relationships with patients. Those ethics were challenged in the years after World War II by remarkable advances in biomedical science and medicine that raised questions about the defintion of death, the use of life-support systems, organ transplantation, and reproductive manipulation. In response, philosophers and theologians,…
Bioethics, Whose Crowd, and What Ideology
ing embrace of strong advocacy Bioethics, as a proper role for those in bioethics. To be sure, one's moral Our Crowd, convictions should be pursued and advocated; no problem and Ideology there. But this needs always to be done in a way that takes the enterprise of bioethics seriously: fairly and carefully stating opposing positions, looking always for their best exemplifications; avoiding the kind of courtroom, daytimeTV-show polemic and bombast …
Assisted reproduction: A process ripe for regulation
Special Supplement: The Birth of Bioethics
Albert R. Jonsen, Shana Alexander, Judith P. Swazey, Warren T. Reich, Robert M. Veatch, Daniel Callahan, Tom L. Beauchamp, Stanley Hauerwas, K. Danner Clouser, David J. Rothman, Daniel M. Fox, Stanley J. Reiser, Arthur L. Caplan, Special Supplement: The Birth of Bioethics, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 23, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1993), pp. S1-S16
Specialists and generalists in obstetrics and gynecology: Conflicts of interest in referral and an ethical alternative
The New Medicine and the Old Ethics
Of Balloons and Bicycles; or, The Relationship between Ethical Theory and Practical Judgment
What has moral theory to do with practical judgment? The practical\nethicist can move by analogy from case to case, saying of most new cases, "Oh,\nI think I've been here before." Theory, ascending to a broader view, can\nprovide directions when the ethicist finds herself in unfamiliar\nterritory
Samaritans and Lockeans
and lower-class, who cannot afford the luxury of private health care, are denied their legal right to control their bodies. To paraphrase Orwell, we are all created equal, but some of us are more equal than others. This brief summary can in no way indicate the richness, the thoughtfulness, the importance of Condit's book. It is a tribute to her presentation that a reader cannot tell, in the end, whether she herself favors the pro-choice or prolif…
Practice versus Theory
In this review essay, Jonsen is concerned with the relationship between theory and practice in bioethics, a concern he finds reflected in three recent books: the third edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, by T. Beauchamp and J. Childress (Oxford University Press; 1989); Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics, edited by B. Brody (Kluwer Academic; 1988); and Theory and Practice in Medical Ethics, by G.C. Graber and D.C. Thomasma …
Common Law Morality
Arras reviews A.R. Jonsen and S. Toulmin's The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (University of California Press; 1988). Jonsen and Toulmin, both of whom worked with the federal National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, critique the role of ethical theory in practical deliberation and attack the belief that moral theories are "universal, mutually exclusive sources of...ethical truth." They argue that "all genuine et…
Patient choice: Maternal-fetal conflict
Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning
In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.
The Artificial Heart's Threat to Others
A member of the two federal advisory panels on artificial hearts reflects that the nuclear-powered artificial heart, had it been developed, would have posed a physical threat to others. Today's artificial heart poses a different threat. Because of the high costs, many people may be deprived of access to other forms of medical care and other social goods
The Experience of the American Board of Internal Medicine
Ethics by the Book
Book reviewed in this article: Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. By Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, and William J. Winslade
Newborn Intensive Care: The Ethical Problems
Perinatology deals with the birth and death, the illness and health, of the about-to-be and the just born. Growing numbers of healthy children bear witness to its promise; if they had been born a few years earlier, they would have died or survived damaged. But, like many of the babies whom it serves, perinatal medicine has its own developmental quandaries as a result of its rapid growth. Its most profound ethical problems are ancient. The pessimi…
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The Decalogue: Command and Presence
The Totally Implantable Artificial Heart
Public Ethics and Policy Making
Newborn Intensive Care: The Ethical Problems
Perinatology deals with the birth and death, the illness and health, of the about-to-be and the just born. Growing numbers of healthy children bear witness to its promise; if they had been born a few years earlier, they would have died or survived damaged. But, like many of the babies whom it serves, perinatal medicine has its own developmental quandaries as a result of its rapid growth. Its most profound ethical problems are ancient. The pessimi…
The Experience of the American Board of Internal Medicine
Ethics by the Book
Book reviewed in this article: Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. By Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, and William J. Winslade
The Artificial Heart's Threat to Others
A member of the two federal advisory panels on artificial hearts reflects that the nuclear-powered artificial heart, had it been developed, would have posed a physical threat to others. Today's artificial heart poses a different threat. Because of the high costs, many people may be deprived of access to other forms of medical care and other social goods
Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning
In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.
Practice versus Theory
In this review essay, Jonsen is concerned with the relationship between theory and practice in bioethics, a concern he finds reflected in three recent books: the third edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, by T. Beauchamp and J. Childress (Oxford University Press; 1989); Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics, edited by B. Brody (Kluwer Academic; 1988); and Theory and Practice in Medical Ethics, by G.C. Graber and D.C. Thomasma …
Common Law Morality
Arras reviews A.R. Jonsen and S. Toulmin's The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (University of California Press; 1988). Jonsen and Toulmin, both of whom worked with the federal National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, critique the role of ethical theory in practical deliberation and attack the belief that moral theories are "universal, mutually exclusive sources of...ethical truth." They argue that "all genuine et…
Patient choice: Maternal-fetal conflict
Of Balloons and Bicycles; or, The Relationship between Ethical Theory and Practical Judgment
What has moral theory to do with practical judgment? The practical\nethicist can move by analogy from case to case, saying of most new cases, "Oh,\nI think I've been here before." Theory, ascending to a broader view, can\nprovide directions when the ethicist finds herself in unfamiliar\nterritory
Samaritans and Lockeans
and lower-class, who cannot afford the luxury of private health care, are denied their legal right to control their bodies. To paraphrase Orwell, we are all created equal, but some of us are more equal than others. This brief summary can in no way indicate the richness, the thoughtfulness, the importance of Condit's book. It is a tribute to her presentation that a reader cannot tell, in the end, whether she herself favors the pro-choice or prolif…
Specialists and generalists in obstetrics and gynecology: Conflicts of interest in referral and an ethical alternative
The New Medicine and the Old Ethics
Special Supplement: The Birth of Bioethics
Albert R. Jonsen, Shana Alexander, Judith P. Swazey, Warren T. Reich, Robert M. Veatch, Daniel Callahan, Tom L. Beauchamp, Stanley Hauerwas, K. Danner Clouser, David J. Rothman, Daniel M. Fox, Stanley J. Reiser, Arthur L. Caplan, Special Supplement: The Birth of Bioethics, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 23, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1993), pp. S1-S16
Bioethics, Whose Crowd, and What Ideology
ing embrace of strong advocacy Bioethics, as a proper role for those in bioethics. To be sure, one's moral Our Crowd, convictions should be pursued and advocated; no problem and Ideology there. But this needs always to be done in a way that takes the enterprise of bioethics seriously: fairly and carefully stating opposing positions, looking always for their best exemplifications; avoiding the kind of courtroom, daytimeTV-show polemic and bombast …
Assisted reproduction: A process ripe for regulation
The Birth of Bioethics
Bioethics represents a dramatic revision of the centuries-old ethics that governed the behaviour of physicians and their relationships with patients. Those ethics were challenged in the years after World War II by remarkable advances in biomedical science and medicine that raised questions about the defintion of death, the use of life-support systems, organ transplantation, and reproductive manipulation. In response, philosophers and theologians,…
Present at the Conception
Social responsibilities of bioethics
Beating up Bioethics
Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness (review)
The recent report issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err Is Human, 1 propelled into public and political view the unacceptable rates of mortality and morbidity incurred by patients in the course of their health care. Summarizing studies done over the last decade, it stated that medical errors kill between forty-four thousand and ninety-eight thousand people annually, and that the costs of [End Page 617] these errors amount to $2 billio…
Beating up Bioethics
Penser par cas
Qu’est-ce que penser par cas ? Comment raisonne-t-on à partir de la description de configurations singulières et dans quelle mesure peut‐on prétendre généraliser à partir d’elles ? Le problème n’est pas nouveau. Les casuistiques morales, religieuses, juridiques, la démarche clinique associée à la tradition médicale en sont autant d’exemples attestés dans le long terme. De façons diverses, ces formes anciennes illustrent une voie qui diffère à la …
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