While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against
COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide …

Dr Caitríona L Cox's recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the 'Healthcare
Hero'metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care …

In this chapter, I present the Impairment Argument, which purports to show that abortion is
immoral even if the fetus is not a person. What drives the argument is the fact that nonlethally …

Blackshaw and Hendricks have recently developed and defended the impairment argument
against abortion, arguing that the immorality of giving a child fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

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 …

In order for the so-called strengthened impairment argument (SIA) to succeed, it must posit
some reason R that causing fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, one that also holds in …

In response to criticism of the impairment argument for the immorality of abortion, Bruce
Blackshaw and Perry Hendricks appeal to Don Marquis's future-like-ours (FLO) account of …

Perry Hendricks' original 'impairment argument'against abortion relied on 'the impairment
principle'(TIP):'if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris …

Perry Hendricks''impairment argument', which he has defended in this journal, is intended to
demonstrate that the generally conceded wrongness of giving a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome …

I argue here that the impairment principle requires clarification. It needs to explain what
makes one impairment greater than another, otherwise we will be unable to make the …