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Health and Society
Studies from City University of New York describe new findings in health and society
March 29th, 2008
According to recent research from Birmingham, the United Kingdom, "Bioethics as an academic discipline comes into public discourse when real life ''hard cases'' receive media attention. Since cases of this sort increasingly often become the subject of litigation, the forum for debate can be a court of law, with judges as the final arbiters." "Judges (unlike philosophers) are obliged to give final and definitive rulings in a constrained time period. Their training is in a type of discourse very different from moral philosophy, though still concerned with right and wrong. This paper explores the differences between the tools and methods used in public legal debate and...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-29)
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