Cases

The following materials summarize significant legal and clinical cases that illustrate important issues in health care ethics.

Some of these cases are landmark legal cases that have had significant influence in the development of health care ethics as a field. Other cases, while perhaps less well-known, illustrate important questions, issues and concepts that arise in health care ethics.

After each case, you will find a list of Key Ethical Principles, and Issues & Concepts that are especially relevant to that case. By providing these cases in conjunction with links to the relevant principles, issues, and concepts, we hope to facilitate a better understanding of how the different key ethical principles, issues and concepts relate to one another and interact in the analysis of difficult moral questions that arise in the context of health care.

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