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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 life. Examining the ideas and assumptions behind the sanctity-of-life view, Kuhse argues against thetraditional view that allowing someone to die is morally different from killing, and shows that quality-of-life judgments are ubiquitous. Refuting the sanctity-of-life view, she provides a sketch of a quality-of-life ethics based on the belief that there is a profound difference between merelybeing alive and life being in the patient's interest.
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The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine, Helga Kuhse
- Language
- Released
- 1987
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine
- Subtitle
- A Critique
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Helga Kuhse
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 235
- ISBN10
- 0198249438
- ISBN13
- 9780198249436
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Medicine, Professional Literature, Ethics, Quality of Life, Medical Ethics
- Description
- 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 life. Examining the ideas and assumptions behind the sanctity-of-life view, Kuhse argues against thetraditional view that allowing someone to die is morally different from killing, and shows that quality-of-life judgments are ubiquitous. Refuting the sanctity-of-life view, she provides a sketch of a quality-of-life ethics based on the belief that there is a profound difference between merelybeing alive and life being in the patient's interest.