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Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique
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dc.date.available
2019-03-27T17:14:54Z
dc.date.issued
2017-06
dc.identifier.citation
Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique; Is medically assisted death a special obligation?; B M J Publishing Group; Journal Of Medical Ethics.; 43; 6; 6-2017; 401-406
dc.identifier.issn
0306-6800
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/72640
dc.description.abstract
Several distinct arguments conclude that terminally ill patients have a right to a medically assisted death; two are especially influential: the autonomy argument and the non-harm argument. Both have proven convincing to many, but not to those who view the duty not to kill as an (almost) absolute constraint. Some philosophers see the source of such a constraint in general (deontological) moral principles, other in the nature of the medical profession. My aim in this paper is not to add one further argument in favour of medically assisted death. Rather, I want to shed light on a kind of reason that, to my mind, has not been previously highlighted or defended, and that might shake the principled conviction that doctors are never allowed to actively assist their patients to die. Specifically, my purpose is to show that doctors (as members of the medical profession) have a special duty to provide medically assisted death to consenting terminally ill patients, because (and insofar as) they have been participants in the process leading to the situation in which a patient can reasonably ask to die. In some specific ways (to be explained), they are involved in the tragic fate of those patients and, therefore, are not morally allowed to straightforwardly refuse to assist them to die.
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application/pdf
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
B M J Publishing Group
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dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.subject
Medically Assisted Death
dc.subject
Euthanasia
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Special Duties
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Estudios Religiosos
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dc.subject.classification
Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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dc.subject.classification
HUMANIDADES
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dc.title
Is medically assisted death a special obligation?
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2019-03-26T13:57:00Z
dc.journal.volume
43
dc.journal.number
6
dc.journal.pagination
401-406
dc.journal.pais
Reino Unido
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dc.journal.ciudad
Londres
dc.description.fil
Fil: Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.journal.title
Journal Of Medical Ethics.
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dc.relation.alternativeid
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://jme.bmj.com/content/43/6/401
dc.relation.alternativeid
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-103575
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