Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?
Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism ar...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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BMJ Publ.
1998
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Journal of medical ethics
Jahr: 1998, Band: 24, Heft: 6, Seiten: 385-387 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objective, rational and true, while religion is irrational and false. |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/jme.24.6.385 |