Results 211 to 220 of about 1,701,712 (263)

The doctrine of double effect

Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition, 2021
An 8 month old infant was found to be unresponsive at home by his mother. Despite, initial signs of life the infant was in full asystolic cardio-respiratory arrest on arrival to A&E. There was no past medical history of note and they had been well on the day of presentation.
Jen Browne, Mariana Dittborn, Joe Brierley   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Double Life of Double Effect

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2004
The U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion in Vacco v. Quill assumes that the principle of double effect explains the permissibility of hastening death in the context of ordinary palliative care and in extraordinary cases in which painkilling drugs have failed to relieve especially intractable suffering and terminal sedation has been adopted as a last ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Double Think and Double Effect

Blackfriars, 1963
In the recent collection of essays entitled ‘Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience’, Elizabeth Anscombe asks how it is that Cathohcs have been able to accommodate themselves with so little strain of conscience to modern war; and the answer, in her own telling phrase, is ‘double think about double effect’.
openaire   +1 more source

Who is Entitled to Double Effect?

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1991
The doctrine of double effect continues to be an important tool in bioethical casuistry. Its role within the Catholic moral tradition continues, and there is considerable interest in it by contemporary moral philosophers. But problems of justification and correct application remain.
openaire   +2 more sources

Double-double effect and the coordination number

Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry, 1979
The thermodynamics of protonation of the lanthanide(III) chelates of trans-l,2-diaminocyclohexanetetraacetic acid (LnDCTA') was studied by potentiometric titration at the ionic strength of 1 (KC1). The protonation constants determined change monotonically and the double-double effect in the log K against Z variation is manifested in all four segments ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Double Effect

New Blackfriars, 2009
AbstractAny killing of the innocent intrinsic to nuclear deterrence strategy (admitted as unavoidable by Michael Quinlan), is often excused as a side effect, not directly intended, of any proposed use of nuclear weapons. As such, he claimed, it can be ‘morally tolerable’.
openaire   +1 more source

Directionality Effect in Double Conditionals

The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2015
AbstractDirectionality effect in deductive reasoning is a very well-known phenomenon that shows that the percentage of forward or backward inferences that participants make depends on the conditional form used. A new extension of the semantic hypothesis (Oberauer & Wilhelm, 2000) is presented to explain the directionality effect in double ...
Espino, Orlando, Sánchez-Curbelo, Isana, Bolaños-Medina, Alicia   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Effectiveness of Sparse Data Structure for Double-Double and Quad-Double Arithmetics

2014
Double-double and Quad-double arithmetics are effective tools to reduce the round-off errors in floating-point arithmetic. However, the dense data structure for high-precision numbers in MuPAT/Scilab requires large amounts of memory and a great deal of the computation time.
Tsubasa Saito, Satoko Kikkawa, Emiko Ishiwata, Hidehiko Hasegawa   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Quinn on Double Effect: The Problem of "Closeness"

Ethics, 1993
L'A. explore l'interpretation et l'application de la doctrine du double effet (DDE) de W. Quinn et ce, dans le but de trouver une formulation appropriee et un raisonnement plausible de cette ...
John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza, David Copp   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source