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Bioethics
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Voluntary assisted dying should be legal for competent adults
Sweden doesn't allow it. I've worked alongside colleagues from the Netherlands, where it has been legal under statute since 2002, and I've read about Canada, where it became legal in 2016. The argument for, as I understand it: competent adults have the…
Started by Elin Lindqvist8 replies290 views -
Brain death is not death
I've confirmed brain death several times in my career, and I believe the clinical criteria are reliable. My question is philosophical: is a person who meets them actually dead? The 1968 Harvard ad hoc committee defined "irreversible coma" as a criterion of…
Started by Omar Farouk6 replies208 views -
The four-principles framework is too individualist for family-centred medicine
I'm an internist in Addis Ababa, and I first read Beauchamp and Childress as a student. I admired it, and I still teach parts of it. But my clinical life keeps showing me where it doesn't fit. A typical case: an older…
Started by Tsion Bekele6 replies230 views -
Most abortion arguments are really disputes about what grounds moral status, and we should say so
I teach adults in Jerusalem, and when abortion comes up the room divides quickly, each side convinced the other doesn't care about something important. I want to propose something modest. Almost everyone in my classes agrees that killing an innocent person is…
Started by Miriam Adler5 replies287 views