Fifty Years of Killing and Letting Die: On the Limits of Philosophical Bioethics
In 1975, The New England Journal of Medicine published James Rachels' article ‘Active and Passive Euthanasia’. The argumentative method that Rachels introduced, the Bare Difference Argument (also known as the Contrast Strategy), became one of the most widely used tools in ethical reasoning. The...
| Subtitles: | The role of medical ethics in the practices of assisted dying |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2026
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| In: |
Bioethics
Year: 2026, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-323 |
| Further subjects: | B
Killing
B letting die B Applied Ethics B Euthanasia B assisted dying |
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