Does the "sanctity of human life" doctrine sanctify humanness, or life?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 557-560

  Koch, Tom ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; NEWBORN; PERSONHOOD; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; AGED; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUGENICS; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PERSONHOOD; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0033238175     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180199004193     Document Type: Article

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