Journal article
Current controversies and irresolvable disagreement: the case of Vincent Lambert and the role of ‘dissensus’
- Alternative title:
- Current controversy
- Abstract:
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Controversial cases in medical ethics are, by their very nature, divisive. There are disagreements that revolve around questions of fact or of value. Ethical debate may help in resolving those disagreements. However, sometimes in such cases, there are opposing reasonable views arising from deep-seated differences in ethical values. It is unclear that agreement and consensus will ever be possible. In this paper, we discuss the recent controversial case of Vincent Lambert, a French man, diagnos...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Victorian Government
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 631-635
- Publication date:
- 2019-08-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:1032376
- UUID:
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uuid:85ac2ed0-7300-44d6-9133-1d2e47d02bed
- Local pid:
- pubs:1032376
- Source identifiers:
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1032376
- Deposit date:
- 2019-07-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Wilkinson, D and Savulescu, J.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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