Williams Bioethics Analysis

Product Description

 The Williams Bioethics Analysis1 draws from the primary method for Bioethics analysis used world-wide.  Most Bioethics texts use a 5 step Veatch2 process:

1. Respond to the "sense" or feeling that something is wrong
2. Gather information
3. Identify the key ethical problem
4. Seek a resolution
5. Work with others to determine a course of action.

The Williams Bioethics Analysis extends this method in key ways.  It identifies the moral actor's instincts.  It assesses the consequences of those instincts.  It defines the tensions at play.  It introduces the Complementary Bio Ethic.  It develops a place for a Religious Ethic that may operative in the problem.  It prescribes the Action Plan with moral language.

On the reverse side is the Williams Bioethics Worksheet.

References

L. Bryan Williams, Williams Bioethics Analysis, DrEthics Press, 2016.

Robert M. Veatch et al, Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, 20.

William W. May, Bioethics Analysis, Associate Professor of Bioethics, USC.   Author of USC model. 1993.