Ethics of medicine, life, and biotechnology
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Intentional stigmatization is not justified as a public health tool
The earlier self's interests have authority over the current self
Voluntary euthanasia should be permitted.
'Capacity to benefit' in healthcare resource allocation is a cloak for prejudice against disabled and elderly persons, not a neutral empirical criterion.
A component of a system may have a function even if it was not designed or selected for that function
A contradiction arises
A disability movement might seek justice for the wrong people
A disability that causes local hardships does not necessarily make a whole life go worse
A distribution of health-care services not determined by health-care needs is inequitable.
A distribution of health-care services that is not determined by the distribution of health-care needs is unreasonable.
A doctor's intention to harvest a patient's organs for transplant is wrongful because the intended act is wrong.
A family of egalitarian theories about equality of opportunity all support universal access to health care.
A heart has a leaky valve
A just society must treat illness, reduce disease and disability risks before they occur, and distribute those risks equitably
A legal entitlement to a decent minimum of health care can be justified even in the absence of a moral right to such care.
A luck egalitarian universal access system may exclude coverage for conditions for which an individual is substantively responsible.
A norm of reaction for a particular trait can be produced
A nuanced interpretation of the Best Interests standard can appropriately handle cases of the never-competent.
A patient cannot be declared incompetent simply on the basis of her diagnosis.
A person can be disabled but healthy if and only if disability does not constitute disease
A person in a wrestler's hammerlock does not have a malady
A physician is justified in performing an operation even without knowing the operation will save the patient
A principle assuring equal opportunity for welfare or advantage would support a universal access healthcare system that includes a broad range of preventive and treatment services.
A principle permitting doctors to harvest patients' organs for transplant does not provide justified exception to the general duty to aid patients.
A property-based analysis of parenthood is implausible
A prudential insurance argument for universal coverage can be grounded in the assumption that people have a right to a decent minimum of income.
A retrovirus biologically integrated into the body qualifies as a nondistinct sustaining cause of malady
A rights-based or claims-based approach to the wrongness of procreation proves too much.
A selective mentality in reproduction may lead to conditional rather than unconditional love for children after birth
A soda tax is illegitimate under the restrictive motivational-set conception of public reason liberalism, if the health argument is its only justification.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Abortion
A medical procedure that ends a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.
Decision-making capacity
The mental and legal ability to understand information and make choices about your own care or life.
Justice
A name for certain classes of moral rules which concern the essentials of human well-being more nearly than other rules for the guidance of life, carrying more absolute obligation.
Sufficient
# Sufficient Something is sufficient when it is enough to achieve a goal or make something true. For example, having a valid driver's license is sufficient to legally drive a car—you don't need anything else. In everyday language, we use "sufficient" to mean "adequate" or "meeting the minimum requirement needed."
Wellbeing
A state of being healthy, happy, and fulfilled; having a good quality of life.
conceptual analysis
The activity of elucidating our original shared understanding of a target expression, showing that a putative reduction respects the original meaning of that expression.
consent
Valid or genuine consent by all the parties to a sex act
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