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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
1997 Volume.3 No. 1 p.51 ~ p.64
An Integrated Method of New Casuistry and Specified Principlism as Nursing Ethics Methodology


Abstract
The purpose of the study was to introduce an integrated approach of new Casuistry and specified principlism in resolving ethical. problems and stud ying nursing ethics. In studying clinical ethics and nursing ethics, there is no systematic research method. While nurses often experience ethical dilemma~~ in practice, much of previous research on nursing ethics has focused merely on describing the existing problems. In addition. ethists presented theoretical analysis and critics rather than providing the specific problems solving strategies. There is a need in clinical situations for an integrated method. which can provide the objective description for existing problem situations as well as specific problem solving methods.
We inherit two distinct ways of discussing ethical issues. One of these frames these issues in terms of principles, rules, and other general ideas:
the other focuses on the specific features of particular kinds of moral cases. In the first way general ethical rules relate to specific moral cases in a theoretical manner. with universal rules serving as "axioms" from which particular moral judgments are deduced as theorems. In the seconds, this relation is frankly practical, with general moral rules serving as ¢¥maxims¢¥, which can be fully understood only in terms of the paradigmatic cases that define their meaning and force.
Theoretical arguments are structured in ways that free them from any dependence on the circumstances of their presentation and ensure them a validity of a kind that is not affected by the practical context of use. In formal arguments particular conclusions are deduced from("¢¥entailed by ") the initial axioms or universal principles that a re the apex of the argument. So the truth or certainty that attaches to those axioms flows down-ward to the specific instances to be "proved".
In the language of formal logic, the axioms are major premises, the facts that specify the present instance are minor premises, and the conclusion to be "proved" is deduced (follows necessarily) from the initial premses.
Practical arguments. by contrast, involve a wider range of factors than formal deductions and are read with an eye to their occasion of use. Instead of aiming at strict entailments, they draw on the outcomes of previous experience, carrying over the procedures used to resolve earlier problems and reapply them in new problmatic situations. Practical arguments depend for their power on how closely the present circumstances resemble those of the earlier precedent cases for which this particular type of argument was originally devised. So. in practical arguments, the truths and certitudes established in the precedent cases pass side-ways, so as to provide resolutions". of later problems.
In the language of rational analysis, the facts of the present case define the Bounds on which any resolution must be based: the general considerations that, carried Wight in similar situations pro-vide warrants that help settle future cases. So the resolution of any problem holds good. presumptively: its strengh depends on the similarities between the present case and the prededents: and its soundness can be challenged (or rebutted) in situation:. that are recognized ans exceptional.
Jonsen & Toulmin (1988), and Jonsen (1991) introduce 1`few Casuistry as a practical method.
The oxford English Dictionary defines casuistry quite accurately as "that part of ethics which re-solves cases of conscience, applying the general rules of religion and morality to particular in-stances in which circumstances alter- cases or in which there appears to be a conflict of duties."
They modified the casuistry of the medieval ages to use in clinical situations which is characterized by "the typology of cases and the analogy as an inference method"¢¥. A case is the unit of analysis. The structure of case was made with interaction of situation and moral rules. The situation is what surrounds or stands around. The moral rule is the essence of case. The analogy can be objective because "the grounds, the warrants. _the theoretical backing, the modal qualifiers" are identified in the cases.
The specified principlism was the method that Degrazia (1992) integrated the principlism and the specification introduced by Richardson (1990). In this method, the principle is specified by addin g information about limitations of the scope and restricting the-range of the principle. This should be subst,~ntive qualifications.
The integrated method is an combination of the New Casuistry and the specified principlism.
For example, the. study was "Ethical problems experien~~ed by nurses in the care of terminally ill patients¢¥(Um, 1994). Asemi-structured in-depth interview was conducted for fifteen nurses who mainly 1;ook care of terminally ill patients. The first stage, twenty one cases were identified as relevant to the topic, and then were classified to four types of problems. r or instance, one of these types was the patients refusal of care.
The second stage, the ethical problems in the case were defined, and then the case was analyzed. This was to analyze the reasons, the ethical values, and the related ethical principles in the cases. Then the interpretation was synthetically done by integration of the result of analysis and the situation. The third stage was the ordering phase. of the cases, which was done according to the result of the interpretation and the common principles in the cases.
The first two stages describe the methodology of new casuistry, and the final stage was for the methodology of the specified principlism. The common principles were the principle of autonomy and the principle of caring. The principle of autonomy wars specified: when competent patients refus ed care, nurse should discontinue the care to respect for the patients" decision. The principle of caring was also specified when the competent patients rE~fused care, nurses should continue to pro-vide thE~ care in spite ~pf the patients" refusal to preserve their life. These specification may lead the opposite behavior, which emphasizes the importancE~ of nurses will and intentions to make their decision in the clinical situations.
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