PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Palliative Care, Bioethics, Unintended Consequences
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)t doesn"t follow your right to accept/reject treatment: my right to self-determination does not entail a physician"s right to kill me even with, waiving one"s right to life, if possible, does not entail giving another a right to. )t"s hard for the doctors to judge whether or not a patient"s life is worth living anymore: certain rights are inalienable, e. g. Consider the prohibitions against slavery, dueling, or cannibalism order to support your family right to kill you worth living): as responsible moral agents, physicians must have their own moral grounds for their actions, 2. Calculating the consequences: three consequences seem certain, 1. The (cid:498)inherent slipperiness(cid:499) of the moral reasons: 1. Right to self-determination (principle of autonomy: 2. Rushing someone to the hospital, and unintentionally causing accidents due to reckless: the doctrine of double effect, there are necessary conditions in order to apply the principle of double effect (200), 1.
