THE DEAD DONOR RULE, VOLUNTARY ACTIVE EUTHANASIA, AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

We argue that the dead donor rule, which states that multiple vital organs should only be taken from dead patients, is justified neither in principle nor in practice. We use a thought experiment and a guiding assumption in the literature about the justification of moral principles to undermine the t...

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Authors: Coons, Christian (Author) ; Levin, Noah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2011
In: Bioethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 236-243
Further subjects:B Capital Punishment
B dead donor rule
B Organ Donation
B Euthanasia
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