Killing, letting die and moral perception: A reply to Grant Gillett

Bioethics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 414-425

  Thornton, Jim ^a  

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ARTICLE; DYING; EUTHANASIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PATIENT CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 0032829141     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8519.00169     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. James Rachels argued for this position in a short but famous article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia', New England Journal of Medicine, 292, (1975), pp. 78-80. Rachels provided a more extended discussion and defence of his view, usefully correcting many common misunderstandings of his original article, in his book The End of Life, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). Of the many others who have adopted a similar position, albeit with important and carefully stated qualifications, see especially J. Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives, (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977); H. Kuhse, The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987); and M.P. Battin, The Least Worst Death, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994).
2. James Rachels argued for this position in a short but famous article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia', New England Journal of Medicine, 292, (1975), pp. 78-80. Rachels provided a more extended discussion and defence of his view, usefully correcting many common misunderstandings of his original article, in his book The End of Life, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). Of the many others who have adopted a similar position, albeit with important and carefully stated qualifications, see especially J. Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives, (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977); H. Kuhse, The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987); and M.P. Battin, The Least Worst Death, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994).
3. James Rachels argued for this position in a short but famous article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia', New England Journal of Medicine, 292, (1975), pp. 78-80. Rachels provided a more extended discussion and defence of his view, usefully correcting many common misunderstandings of his original article, in his book The End of Life, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). Of the many others who have adopted a similar position, albeit with important and carefully stated qualifications, see especially J. Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives, (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977); H. Kuhse, The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987); and M.P. Battin, The Least Worst Death, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994).
4. James Rachels argued for this position in a short but famous article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia', New England Journal of Medicine, 292, (1975), pp. 78-80. Rachels provided a more extended discussion and defence of his view, usefully correcting many common misunderstandings of his original article, in his book The End of Life, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). Of the many others who have adopted a similar position, albeit with important and carefully stated qualifications, see especially J. Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives, (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977); H. Kuhse, The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987); and M.P. Battin, The Least Worst Death, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994).
5. James Rachels argued for this position in a short but famous article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia', New England Journal of Medicine, 292, (1975), pp. 78-80. Rachels provided a more extended discussion and defence of his view, usefully correcting many common misunderstandings of his original article, in his book The End of Life, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). Of the many others who have adopted a similar position, albeit with important and carefully stated qualifications, see especially J. Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives, (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977); H. Kuhse, The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987); and M.P. Battin, The Least Worst Death, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994).
6. Grant Gillett, 'Killing, Letting Die and Moral Perception', Bioethics, 8:4, (1994), pp. 312-328.
7. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .' p.313 (my emphasis).
8. See also p.328.
9. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p.328.
10. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p.313.
11. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 312.
12. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 312 (Abstract).
13. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 312 (Abstract).
14. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 316.
15. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 315f.
16. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 314.
17. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 323 (My emphasis).
18. Gillett, 'Killing, ... .', p. 323.
19. For a good discussion of the difficulties in interpreting the evidence from the practice of active euthanasia in the Netherlands see Battin 'A dozen caveats concerning the discussion of euthanasia in the Netherlands', in Battin, The Least Worst Death pp. 130-144.