Doctors' orders, rationality and the good life: Commentary on Savulescu

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-129

  Harris, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BENEFICENCE; CLONING; COMPLICITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FREEDOM; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NOTE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

BENEFICENCE; CLONING, ORGANISM; COMPLICITY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0033109878     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.25.2.127     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Savulescu J. Should doctors intentionally do less than the the best? Journal of Medical Ethics 1999;25:121-6.
2. And hence "irrational"?
3. Burley J, Harris J. Human cloning and child welfare. Journal of MedicalEthks 1999;25:108-13.
4. See Savulescu J. Consequentialism, reasons, value and justice. Bioeihics 1998;12:212-35.
5. To avoid muddying the waters with contractual issues we'll assume that the doctors who have to make these decisions have taken over the clinic after all previous doctors perished in an epidemic of existential angst, and that there exist no actual or implied contracts with either Hermione or Doris.
6. There is of course a threshold of sub-optimality beyond which procreative choices will become morally problematic. See reference 3.
7. Dworkin R. Freedom's laa. Oxford: Oxford University Press,1996: 237-8.