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The Function of the Principle of Double Effect
Theological Studies, 1993With considerable frequency moral dilemmas have prompted ethicists to turn to the principle of double effect. Questions concerning sterilization, prophylactic devices, hunger-fasts, military strikes, and euthanasia have made us think of the principle as a handy problem-solving device. Raise a moral conflict, and the principle is profered.
J. Keenan
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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
R. Griffith
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Separation of Conjoined Twins and the Principle of Double Effect
Christian Bioethics, 2006This article examines the relationship between the principle of double effect and justification for separation surgeries for conjoined twins. First, the principle of double effect is examined in light of its historical context. It is argued that it can only operate under an absolutist view of good and evil that is compatible with the Bible.
David H. Wenkel
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The Principle of Double Effect to Moral Education Lessons
Korean Journal of Teacher EducationPurpose: This paper aims to apply the principle of double effect (PDE) to morality and teaching by rethinking the principle as a moral reconceptualization that enables students' moral growth and moral practice by reconciling consequentialist and deontological ethics in the tradition of universal ethics.
Suhyeon Kwon, Seonghyeon An
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Reconstructing the Principle of Double Effect
2013This chapter re-evaluates the Principle of Double Effect as it often manifests itself in health care decisions (typically involving the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration to the seriously ill) and suggests a way to improve its application as a construct for humane decisionmaking. Rather than ascertaining, under the Principle, when conduct is ethical—
George P. Smith
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Philosophical Oncology: Calling on the Principle of Double Effect
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2003Reasonable human behavior is based on doing something for a consequence that is perceived as good. Ethical medical decision-making is based on prioritizing values after understanding the relevant facts. There is an ethical obligation to do no harm. This is especially true in relieving the pain and suffering of dying patients; in these cases, treatment ...
F. Brescia
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The Principle of Double Effect
The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1974P. Devine
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The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2021
Palliative sedation is a well-recognized and commonly used medical practice at the end of life for patients who are experiencing refractory symptoms that cannot be controlled by other means of medical management.
J. Potter, Steven Shields, Renée Breen
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Palliative sedation is a well-recognized and commonly used medical practice at the end of life for patients who are experiencing refractory symptoms that cannot be controlled by other means of medical management.
J. Potter, Steven Shields, Renée Breen
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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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