According to the" sanctity-of-life" view, all human lives are equally valuable and inviolable,
and it would be wrong to base life-and-death medical decisions on the quality of the patient's …

How should modern medicine's dramatic new powers to sustain life be employed? How
should limited resources be used to extend and improve the quality of life? In this collection …

There has been considerable philosophical work during the last two decades, especially in
the United States but not limited to there, in a relatively new field called medical ethics. My …

The purpose of this article is to develop a conception of death with dignity and to examine
whether it is vulnerable to the sort of criticisms that have been made of other conceptions. In …

Medical ethicists place great weight on the intentions of clinical actions. The religious
principle of" double effect," based on a distinction between intentions and consequences, is …

" Call no man happy until he is dead." With these deliberately paradoxical words, the ancient
Athenian sage Solon reminds the self-satisfied Croesus of the perils of fortune and the need …