Abstract
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 false.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 385-387 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Medical Ethics |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1998 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Health(social science)
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Health Policy
Keywords
- Ethics
- Futility
- Irrational
- Rational
- Religion
- Social justice