A Case Against Permitting Intentional Medical Killing (Biggar, 2009)
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The Physician as Political Actor: Late Abortion and the Strictures of Liberal Moral Discourse (Brian Brock, 2006)
By examining the range of factors pressing on medical professionals faced with a decision in a case of late-term abortion, it becomes apparent that the theological resources ruled out of bounds by the standard account can be
considered an essential part of a truly liberating and properly supple moral account of medical decision-making. Close attention to the social, political and legal context of contemporary medicine reveals that the standard account of medical ethics, Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress, despite its universalist aspirations, disempowers rather than empowers moral decision-making by medical professionals.
A Right To Health? (O’Donovan, 2010)
If we refer to it as a slogan, that need not be in a pejorative sense. It means simply that “the right to health” does useful duty as a shorthand reference. A cluster of concerns are summed up compactly; it gestures out towards a whole line of argument remaining to be traced. If we discuss “the right to health” as a slogan, we do not discuss anything we are actually doing or proposing to do. …