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Bioethics

A topic within Applied Ethics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

Reading on Bioethics

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2 works

Paper1971

A Defense of Abortion

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Grants for the sake of argument that the fetus is a person, and argues a right to life still does not include a right to use another person's body without consent, using a thought experiment about a kidnapped violinist to break the assumed link between personhood and a duty to sustain.

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Philosophy · Applied Ethics
FreeIntermediate
Paper1975

Active and Passive Euthanasia

James Rachels

Argues the moral distinction doctors draw between killing a dying patient and merely letting them die does not hold up, because the same intention and the same outcome are present in both, so the distinction cannot be doing the moral work claimed for it.

Philosophy · Applied Ethics
PaidIntermediate

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