In this paper I address three problems posed by modern medical technology regarding
comatose dying patients. The first is that physicians sometimes hide behind the tests for …

KIE: The author examines various claimed differences between active and passive
euthanasia and, if there are differences, whether they are morally significant. He refutes …

The ordinary concept of death is analysed and compared with revisionary medical
definitions, especially those based on irreversible loss of brain function. Prior critics of …

Is there a moral difference between euthanasia for terminally ill adults and euthanasia for
terminally ill children? Luc Bovens considers five arguments to this effect, and argues that …

Abstract In this book, Douglas Walton examines the philosophical nature of two issues
currently associated with medical ethics. In order to work towards an analysis of the concept …

The dead donor rule holds that removing organs from living human beings without their
consent is wrongful killing. The rule still prevails in most countries, and I assume it without …

Depending on our mode of reasoning—moral, prudential, instrumental, empirical,
dialectical, and so on—we may come to vastly different conclusions on the nature of death …

One time when I did a CNN interview segment dealing with the Terri Schiavo case, a
reporter asked me a challenging question. He wondered why Catholics have to do …

This paper addresses five questions: First, what is trajectory of Western liberal ethics and
politics in defining life, rights and citizenship? Second, how will neuro-remediation and other …

'Medical ethics are not separate from but part of other ethics'. Such was the theme of one of
ran Kennedy's Reith Lectures (1980). 1 Some medical decisions, he says, are matters of …