Reviews for Healthcare Reform Through Practical Guidelines in ENT

The average rating for Healthcare Reform Through Practical Guidelines in ENT based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-23 00:00:00 Doug Fisk A great treatise on why moral casuistry is a poor choice (pun) for analysis. Observe: "If kill he must to save innocent lives, then let him try to kill the unjust aggressor.... But if no such preventive killing is possible... then Jim must take the awful consequences of his plight. He simply has no right to murder one innocent person in the hope that thereby he will persuade another not to murder other innocent persons.... We must not cave in under such threats." (unfounded claim) Or: "The surgeon, seeking to save the life of the pregnant woman, knows that by excising the fetus... or the uterus... which is necessary to save maternal life, ends the life of the unborn." (which, aside from being ungrammatical, improperly uses technical terminology. "Life" of the "unborn"? Have we skirted contemporary philosophical definitions of "life" now?) Furthermore, Bedau makes appeal to Kantian ethics, but only when it's convenient to the choice that I guess he came to based on what his gut told him. In the first of three cases, he rejects the Kantian perspective without adequate reasoning, and yet in the second case, he accepts the Kantian perspective. If you are to accept the Kantian perspective, you must accept it totally, and in the cases where it appears that you are rejecting the Kantian perspective, you must indicate why the Kantian perspective does not actually apply to that situation, or why the Kantian perspective does apply, but in the less intuitive direction.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-10-31 00:00:00 Scott Sillings if you're looking for a set of vivid (mostly) real life examples of moral dilemmas in terms of which to understand the basic of ethical theory, this is pretty much the book for you. you're trapped in a cave! the boat is sinking! kill one, or they'll all be killed! holy moly but hugo bedau knows how to drive his point home. a word to the wise: don't start this one right before bed if you want to avoid dreaming of a cold watery grave.