Abstract
Healthcare professions deal with different elements: facts, values, duties, norms. Due to its suitability for harmonize factual and normative dimension, deliberation has been deemed the most appropriate method for clinical decision-making. Doctor-patient relationship can be understood as a process of deliberation, and ethical review boards or commissions are also instances of deliberation, fostering a communal dialogue among health care professionals, patients and society. Deliberative reason is shared by healthcare professions, ethics and law. By means of argumentation, uncertainty, probability, reasonability and practical wisdom, deliberation process aims to achieve wise and prudent decisions about health care. The chapter introduces the structure and main features of the deliberative method for clinical decision-making and suggests some improvements in its structure, foundations and implementation making use of some contributions of the theories of argumentation.
This chapter is one of the results of the research project DER2010-17357, financially supported by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, and the research project DER2014-52811-P, financially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
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Seoane, JA. (2016). Bioethics, Deliberation and Argumentation. In: Serna, P., Seoane, JA. (eds) Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43419-3_7
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