The difficult question is not whether to invoke or apply principles and rules but rather which
rules and principles should be adopted, how they should be inter-preted, how much weight …

Despite its authors' intentions, the four principles approach to medical ethics can become
crudely algorithmic in practice. The first section sets out the bare bones of the four principles …

I am grateful to Tomi Kushner for inviting commentaries on my paper,“Medical Ethics:
Common or Uncommon Morality?” 1 and for the authors who submitted their remarks …

We sometimes forget that medical ethics has a history, and that many of the issues we
discuss today have already been discussed many times previously. As the field grows older …

Most opposition to induced abortion turns on the belief that human fetuses are persons from
conception. On this view, the moral status of the fetus alone requires those in a position to …

Shakespeare's observation in Twelfth Night that “Some are born great. Some achieve
greatness and some have greatness thrust upon'em”(Act 2, Scene 5) scarcely applies to …

Perry Hendricks' original impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on the
impairment principle: if impairing an organism to some degree is immoral, then ceteris …

According to GE Moore, 1 we commit the naturalistic fallacy when we infer 'x is good'from
non-evaluative premises involving x such as 'x is pleasant'or 'x is desired'. On Moore's view …

Raanan Gillon is a noted defender of the four principles approach to healthcare ethics. His
general position has always been that these principles are to be considered to be both …

What role does birth play in the debate about elective abortion? Does the wrongness of
infanticide imply the wrongness of late-term abortion? In this paper, I argue that the same or …