This alarming bit of “lifeboat ethics” public policy has reached my email through several sources: Who should doctors let die in a pandemic? CHICAGO – Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Now, an influential … Continue reading Shoving us off the lifeboat in a pandemic
In case you missed it, today is National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD). We’re all invited to “join Americans across the country to talk to others about your future healthcare decisions and to complete your advance directive!” We’ll pass, at least when it comes to joining with the coalition promoting this effort. If you check the … Continue reading National Healthcare Decisions Day: Count Me Out
Greg Dahlmann, at blog.bioethics.net, alerts readers to Graeme Wood’s article arguing that we should permit (in Dahlmann’s words) “death row prisoners to, essentially, die by organ donation.” Wood’s article is titled “Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death-Row Inmates“: But by using what the bioethicist Arthur Caplan calls “the Mayan Protocol”—a term derived from the ancient … Continue reading Taking Credit for Kevorkian’s Ideas: Prisoners and Organ Harvesting
The name of Peter Singer is probably familiar to many of the readers of this blog and website. Peter Singer is a bioethicist and tenured professor who teaches bioethics at Princeton University. Singer (who should not be confused with the Peter Singer at the University of Toronto) made his reputation in Australia before moving here. … Continue reading Peter Singer – meet Brad Hennefer
This particular entry is difficult to write, since I’ll be referring to an article that is generally unavailable to the public. But it’s important enough to take a crack at it. I suspect that a number of readers of this blog will find a way to get the article one way or another. (smile) For … Continue reading Hastings Ctr Report: Article Claims Ashley X “Sacrificed for the disability rights agenda”
