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This article con nes itself largely within boundaries of normative bioethics. It examines major types of principle-based methods (consequentialist, deontological, and pluralistic principlist methods), casebased methods, virtue ethics, ethics of care, and communitarian perspectives, along with some critical points from feminist perspectives and from rule-based theories. One cautionary note is in order: most of these types of method, theory, or perspective encompass a number of approaches that involve some degree of family resemblance. Since it will be impossible to examine all of these approaches in detail, the article highlights some major themes and criticisms, discusses a few representative positions in more detail, and sketches a few of their implications for practical decision-making about physicianassisted suicide and active euthanasia, topics addressed by proponents of all these methods, theories, and perspectives. Introduction: Questions About Method IN the preface to the rst edition of his classic work The Methods of Ethics, Henry Sidgwick noted its focus on 'the di erent methods of obtaining reasoned convictions as to what ought to be done' (Sidgwick 1962, p. v).He de ned

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Author

James F. Childress

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction