Acts, Omissions and Keeping Patients Alive in a Persistent Vegetative State: Sophie Botros

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:99-119 (1995)
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There are many conflicting attitudes to technological progress: some people are fearful that robots will soon take over, even perhaps making ethical decisions for us, whilst others enthusiastically embrace a future largely run for us by them. Still others insist that we cannot predict the long term outcome of present technological developments. In this paper I shall be concerned with the impact of the new technology on medicine, and with one particularly agonizing ethical dilemma to which it has already given rise.

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edition Botros, Sophie (1995) "Acts, omissions, and keeping patients alive in a persistent vegetative state". In Botros, Sophie, Philosophy and Technology, pp. 99-119: Cambridge University Press (1995)

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Sophie Botros
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On the Relative Strictness of Negative and Positive Duties.Bruce Russell - 1977 - American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (2):87 - 97.

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