The Sanctity-Of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique

by Helga Kuhse

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 the traditional 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198249438
• ISBN13: 9780198249436
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"