How the Doctrine of Double Effect Rhetoric Harms Patients Seeking Voluntary Assisted Dying
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DOI: 10.1007/s11673-024-10340-4
Abstract: Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) became the first state law to permit VAD in Australia under limited circumstances from June 2019. Before this, many palliative care physicians relied on the doctrine of double… read more here.
Keywords: double effect; effect; voluntary assisted; doctrine double ... See more keywords
The Loop trolley case strikes again! A threat to the Doctrine of Double Effect and the Mere Means Principle
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DOI: 10.1111/phpr.70021
Abstract: Judith Thomson introduced the Loop variant of the trolley case (Loop Case) which poses a problem for two attractive moral principles: the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) and the Mere Means Principle (MMP). In the… read more here.
Keywords: loop case; doctrine double; case; trolley case ... See more keywords