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Moral reasoning – the unrealized place of casuistry in medical ethics

If the practice of ethics consists of the justifiable application of moral principles, then the challenge will always be to ensure, first, that the principles are well chosen and, second, that their application to the case in point is overtly justifiable. In this editorial, having briefly mentioned “principlism”, which itself involves the application of ethical principles in practice, we shall make the case for casuistry (case-based) reasoning.