The Ashley Treatment: Improving Quality of Life or Infringing Dignity and Rights?
The ‘Ashley treatment’ (growth attenuation, removal of the womb and breasts buds of a severely disabled child) has raised much ethical controversy. This article starts from the observation that this debate suffers from a lack of careful philosophical analysis which is essential for an ethical assess...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 141-150 |
RelBib Classification: | NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Disability
B Dignity B Rights B Ashley treatment B Well-being B Quality of life |
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