Life Sciences
Investigators at Queen's University zero in on life sciences
Published in Physician Law Weekly, August 6th, 2008
Researchers detail in 'Guilty but good: defending voluntary active euthanasia from a virtue perspective,' new data in life sciences. "This article is presented as a defence of voluntary active euthanasia from a virtue perspective and it is written with the objective of generating debate and challenging the assumption that killing is necessarily vicious in all circumstances. Practitioners are often torn between acting from virtue and acting from duty," researchers in Northern Ireland UK report.
"In the case presented the physician was governed by compassion and this illustrates how good people may have the courage to sacrifice their own security in the interests of...
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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2008-08-06)
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