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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1999
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1999
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1999
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1999
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Regulating Doctors, Carl E. Schneider
Regulating Doctors, Carl E. Schneider
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Alawyer today can hardly speak to a doctor--or even be treated by one-without being assailed by lawyer jokes. These jokes go well beyond good-humored badinage and pass the line into venom and gall. They reflect, I think, the sense many doctors today have that they are embattled and endangered, cruelly subject to pervasive and perverse controls. This is puzzling, almost to the point of mystery. Doctors have long been the American profession with the greatest social prestige, the greatest wealth, and the greatest control over its work. Indeed, what other profession has been as all-conquering? One may need to go …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1999
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1999
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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The Misperception That Bioethics And The Law Lag Behind Advances In Biotechnology, David Orentlicher
The Misperception That Bioethics And The Law Lag Behind Advances In Biotechnology, David Orentlicher
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Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl Schneider
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl Schneider
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At the heart of our difficulty in approaching neonatal euthanasia lie the intractable questions it raises: What is human life? When is death preferable to life? What do parents owe their children? What does society owe the suffering? Those moral questions could hardly be more perplexing, yet they are further complicated when they must be resolved not informally and case by case, but through generally applicable social rules. This is so for numerous reasons. For instance, the wide range of deeply held opinions about neonatal euthanasia makes rules hard to formulate, and the wide range of factual situations in which …