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Dignity and death: a reply
Journal of Medical Ethics 11 (2):84-87 (1985)
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Some form of utilitarian approach can be discerned as underlying much current medical ethical decision-making. Criticisms of the practical effects of such an approach are not parried by asserting the fundamental strengths of utilitarianism as theory.Links
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Why you don't owe it to yourself to seek health.S. Gorovitz - 1984 - Journal of Medical Ethics 10 (3):143-146.
Dignity and cost-effectiveness: a rejection of the utilitarian approach to death.S. A. Brooks - 1984 - Journal of Medical Ethics 10 (3):148-151.
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