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According to the sanctity-of-life view, all human lives are equally valuable and inviolable, and it would be wrong to base life-and-death medical decisions on the quality of the patient's life. Examining the ideas and assumptions behind the sanctity-of-life view, Kuhse argues against thetraditional view that allowing someone to die is morally different from killing, and shows that quality-of-life judgments are ubiquitous. Refuting the sanctity-of-life view, she provides a sketch of a quality-of-life ethics based on the belief that there is a profound difference between merelybeing alive and life being in the patient's interest.
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The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine, Helga Kuhse
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- Année de publication
- 1987
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- Titre
- The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine
- Sous-titre
- A Critique
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Helga Kuhse
- Éditeur
- Oxford University Press
- Publié
- 1987
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 235
- ISBN10
- 0198249438
- ISBN13
- 9780198249436
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Philosophie, Médecine, Littérature spécialisée, Éthique, Qualité de vie, Éthique médicale
- Description
- According to the sanctity-of-life view, all human lives are equally valuable and inviolable, and it would be wrong to base life-and-death medical decisions on the quality of the patient's life. Examining the ideas and assumptions behind the sanctity-of-life view, Kuhse argues against thetraditional view that allowing someone to die is morally different from killing, and shows that quality-of-life judgments are ubiquitous. Refuting the sanctity-of-life view, she provides a sketch of a quality-of-life ethics based on the belief that there is a profound difference between merelybeing alive and life being in the patient's interest.