PHIL 361 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lifesaving, Paternalism, Condom
10 Aug 2019
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Schwartz, autonomy, futility, and the limits of medicine . Rescher, the allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy . Moss and siegler, should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplants? . Ho, when good organs go to bad people . Explain the difference between active and passive euthanasia. Active: directly doing something that will lead to person"s death. Passive: not doing something to save someone who will eventually die. The doctrine says that it is sometimes permissible to allow a patient to die but it is never permissible to directly kill someone. It is in the ama house of delegates. It is against what the medical profession stands for. Rachels presents 3 objections to this doctrine: the argument from humanitarian considerations, the irrelevant grounds objection, and the bare differences argument. What are these arguments: both reduces suffering. Active is painless and fast, reduces suffering faster and more effectively: determining life and death and irrelevant grounds such as the down.
