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Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?
Journal of Medical Ethics 24 (6):385-387 (1998)
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Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objective, rational and true, while religion is irrational and falseOther Versions
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Philosophy in medicine: conceptual and ethical issues in medicine and psychiatry.Charles M. Culver - 1982 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Bernard Gert.
Philosophy in Medicine: Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Medicine and Psychiatry.C. M. Culver & B. Gert - 1982 - Mind 93 (372):624-627.
Requests for "inappropriate" treatment based on religious beliefs.R. D. Orr & L. B. Genesen - 1997 - Journal of Medical Ethics 23 (3):142-147.
Autonomy, religious values, and refusal of lifesaving medical treatment.M. J. Wreen - 1991 - Journal of Medical Ethics 17 (3):124-130.
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