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Deception and the Principle of Double Effect
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2008The Principle of Double Effect has been with us since the Middle Ages and has sanctified actions that might otherwise be viewed as morally wrong. What I wish to show in this brief perspective is that an overlooked element in the discussions of this principle raises a serious question about its applicability.
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The Principle of Double Effect and Terminal Sedation
Medical Law Review, 2001Williams, Glenys, 'The Principle of Double Effect and Terminal Sedation', Medical Law Review, 9 (2001), pp.41-53 ...
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2018
‘Double effect’ refers to the good and bad effects which may foreseeably follow from one and the same act. The principle of double effect originates in Aquinas’ ethics, and is supposed to guide decision about acts with double effect where the bad effect is something that must not be intended, such as the death of an innocent person.
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‘Double effect’ refers to the good and bad effects which may foreseeably follow from one and the same act. The principle of double effect originates in Aquinas’ ethics, and is supposed to guide decision about acts with double effect where the bad effect is something that must not be intended, such as the death of an innocent person.
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The Principle of Double Effect
2018This chapter is an evaluation of the principle of double effect. The principle of double effect is a principle congenial to the just war theory and is appealed to by just war theorists. It is a principle that under certain circumstances can relieve perpetrators of war actions that inflict suffering on innocents (or have other harmful or evil effects ...
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Controlled drugs and the principle of double effect
British Journal of Community Nursing, 2006The role of district nurses in the effective management of pain in palliative care has been strengthened by recent amendments to the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2005 that allow district nurses who are independent or supplementary prescribers to prescribe and administer controlled drugs. However, the right to prescribe controlled drugs also
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The Principle of Double Effect
2000Abstract St Thomas Aquinas, in discussing killing in self-defence, remarks that one and the same action may have two effects, one of them intended, and the other beside the intention. Later Catholic theologians developed from this a doctrine of double effect, stated as follows by John of St Thomas. If an act, not evil in itself, has both
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Killing and the Principle of Double Effect
Scottish Journal of Theology, 1988When we raise the question of whether the pleasures of the human body are as valuable as those of the human mind — whether, for example, pushpin is as good as poetry — it is quite possible that people will disagree on their answers. But we would also expect most people to agree with the assertion that the death of a human being would generally be a bad
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The principle of double effect and external whistleblowing in nursing
Nursing Outlook, 2022Nurses are generally expected to raise concerns when a harm or wrongdoing is committed against patients. Should their concerns not be adequately addressed, then nurses may take the decision to engage in external whistleblowing. Given that it could have a negative effect on the health care organization or service, nurses may question whether they should
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Toward Understanding the Principle of Double Effect
Ethics, 1980The Principle of Double Effect (hereafter PDE) has long been a mainstay of Catholic moral thinking.' In recent years, however, the use and discussion of this doctrine have not been limited to Catholics or to theologians.' The PDE, or propositions closely related to it, have come up for considerable discussion by English-speaking philosophers.3 In spite
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The Gosport inquiry and the principle of double effect
British Journal of Nursing, 2018Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, restates the requirements of the principle of double effect that seeks to ensure that patients in intractable pain receive the analgesia they require to manage it
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