Scratching the Surface of BioethicsMatti Häyry, Tuija Takala Rodopi, 2003 - 148 pagini Is bioethics only about medicine and health care? Law? Philosophy? Social issues? No, on all accounts. It embraces all these and more. In this book, fifteen notable scholars from the North West of England critically explore the main approaches to bioethics--and make a scratch on its polished surface. |
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Pagina 114 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Pagina 51 - Smith stands to gain a large inheritance if anything should happen to his six-year-old cousin. One evening while the child is taking his bath, Smith sneaks into the bathroom and drowns the child, and then arranges things so that it will look like an accident. In the second, Jones also stands to gain if anything should happen to his sixyear-old cousin. Like Smith. Jones sneaks in planning to drown the child in his bath. However, just as he enters the bathroom Jones sees the child slip and hit his...
Pagina 51 - Jones also stands to gain if anything should 1 1 happen to his six-year-old cousin. Like Smith, Jones sneaks in planning to drown the child in his bath. However, just as he enters the bathroom Jones sees the child slip and hit his head, and fall face down in the water. Jones is delighted; he stands...
Pagina 51 - ... Jones is delighted; he stands by, ready to push the child's head back under if it is necessary, but it is not necessary. With only a little thrashing about, the child drowns all by himself, "accidentally," as Jones watches and does nothing. Now Smith killed the child, while Jones "merely
Pagina 114 - But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rationaL as well as a more conversable animaL than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not. Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Pagina 142 - Holm is Professor of Clinical Bioethics at the University of Manchester, and Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo. He holds degrees in medicine, philosophy and healthcare ethics, and two doctoral degrees.
Pagina 71 - definitional criteria' of moral good and evil, so long as it is clear that they belong to the concept of morality — to the definition and not to some definition which a man can choose for himself. What we say about such definitional criteria will be objectively true or false.
Pagina 80 - ... the principle of autonomy," "the principle of nonmaleficence," "the principle of beneficence," and "the principle of justice.
Pagina 51 - Jones's behaviour was less reprehensible than Smith's. But does one really want to say that? I think not. In the first place, both men acted from the same motive, personal gain, and both had exactly the same end in view when they acted. It may be inferred from Smith's conduct that he is a bad man, although that...