| Euthanasia and Common Sense: A Reply to Garcia. | |
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PMID: 21597086 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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J. L. A. Garcia holds that my defense of voluntary euthanasia in an earlier paper amounts to an "assault on traditional common sense" about what medical ethics permits physicians to do, particularly insofar as I hold that a physician's duty to abstain from intentionally killing is only a defeasible duty, not an unconditional one. But I argue here that it is Garcia's views that are more at odds with common sense, and that voluntary euthanasia is in fact a humane alternative that respects patient autonomy and is consistent with the most fundamental moral duties of physicians. Among these is a duty to relieve suffering, which can sometimes outweigh the fundamental duty to conserve life. |
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Gary Seay |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-5-19 |
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Title: The Journal of medicine and philosophy Volume: - ISSN: 1744-5019 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 May |
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Created Date: 2011-5-20 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7610512 Medline TA: J Med Philos Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. |
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