Historical Analogies, Slippery Slopes, and the Question of Euthanasia

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (2):176-186 (2000)
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Is the Nazi euthanasia program a useful analogy for contemporary discussions of euthanasia? This paper explores the logic of slippery slope arguments with the Nazi analogy as a test case.

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10.1111/j.1748-720x.2000.tb00008.x

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