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PMID: 20624765 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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In this article I show that the argument in John Harris's famous "Survival Lottery" paper cannot be right. Even if we grant Harris's assumptions--of the justifiability of such a lottery, the correctness of maximizing consequentialism, the indistinguishability between killing and letting die, the practical and political feasibility of such a scheme--the argument still will not yield the conclusion that Harris wants. On his own terms, the medically needy should be less favored (and more vulnerable to being killed), than Harris suggests. |
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Authors:
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Mark T Nelson |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Comment; Journal Article Date: 2010-07-11 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of medicine and philosophy Volume: 35 ISSN: 1744-5019 ISO Abbreviation: J Med Philos Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-30 Completed Date: 2010-11-12 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7610512 Medline TA: J Med Philos Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 396-401 Citation Subset: E; IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Philosophy, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA. manelson@westmont.edu |
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Ethical Analysis Euthanasia, Passive Health Care Rationing / ethics* Humans Moral Obligations* Organ Transplantation / ethics Philosophy, Medical Physicians / ethics* Random Allocation |
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Philosophy. 1975 Jan;50(191):81-7
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