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The harm threshold and Mill's harm principle. [PDF]
Theor Med Bioeth, 2023 AbstractThe Harm Threshold (HT) holds that the state may interfere in medical decisions parents make on their children’s behalf only when those decisions are likely to cause serious harm to the child. Such a high bar for intervention seems incompatible with both parental obligations and the state’s role in protecting children’s well-being.
Taylor M.
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What is the Harm Principle For? [PDF]
Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2014 In their excellent monograph, Crimes, Harms and Wrongs, Andrew Simester and Andreas von Hirsch argue for an account of legitimate criminalisation based on wrongfulness, the Harm Principle and the Offence Principle, while they reject an independent anti-paternalism principle.
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Harm reduction principles for healthcare settings [PDF]
Harm Reduction Journal, 2017 Background Harm reduction refers to interventions aimed at reducing the negative effects of health behaviors without necessarily extinguishing the problematic health behaviors completely.
Mary Hawk +6 more
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The Harm Principle and Christian Belief [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021 The article addresses the question why Christians often fail to achieve even the minimum standard of secular morality. It isolates from a long list of failures the undermining and maltreatment of women and sexual minorities.
Adrian Thatcher
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Defining harm: The harm principle and religious rights in South Africa
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 This article asks whether the harm principle, as originally formulated by John Mill and applied in religious rights discourse, is sufficiently coherent to be used as a criterion for the limitation or protection of religious rights.
Nicolaas Vorster
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The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm [PDF]
Utilitas, 2021 AbstractThis article defends the Harm Principle, commonly attributed to John Stuart Mill, against recent criticism. Some philosophers think that this principle should be rejected, because of severe difficulties with finding an account of harm to plug into it. I examine the criticism and find it unforceful. Finally, I identify a faulty assumption behind
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The study of the impact of anthropological and epistemological views of David Hume on the concept of crime in Bentham and Mill thought [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2020 In order to understand the concept of crime, It is necessary to refer to foundations of legal systems. Anthropology is one of the areas of studies that has a bond with criminal law.
Mostafa Nasiri, Sayyed Mohammad Hosseini
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The harm principle and the greatest happiness principle: the missing link [PDF]
Kriterion, 2014 In this article I present a possible solution for the classic problem of the apparent incompatibility between Mill's Greatest Happiness Principle and his Principle of Liberty arguing that in the other-regarding sphere the judgments of experience and ...
Cinara Nahra
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Autonomy limitations in public health law: Compulsory childhood vaccination [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016 It needs to be stressed that the opponents of compulsory vaccination programmes for children, which are nowadays preferred by many states, are not unanimous in their arguments against such policies.
Tucak Ivana
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Introduction: Parents/legal guardians are medical decision-makers for their minor children. Lack of parental capacity to appreciate the implications of the diagnosis and consequences of refusing recommended treatment may impede pediatric patients from ...
Ewa D. Bieber +6 more
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