Ethics-Governance: Article: Shaw’s Criticism to the Double Effect Doctrine

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Shaw’s Criticism to the Double Effect Doctrine Shaw's Criticism to the Double Effect Doctrine, Dr Paulina Taboada Profesor Centro de Bioetica Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Alameda 340 Correo Central 1 Santiago, Chile .The principle of the double effect sheds light on various ethical problems that are frequent in Palliative Medicine. This principle sets the ethical criteria for the legitimacy of actions that have well-known, unavoidable bad side effects. There are, indeed, many situations in which one cannot do the good, without also causing undesired bad effects. This is the case, for instance, of using of opiates in terminally ill patients, knowing that they may negatively affect the patient’s blood pressure, respiration and state of awareness. The principle of the double effect states that actions with both good and bad effects are ethically legitimate only under certain conditions: The act performed is not itself morally evil. Full Article: http://www.hospicecare.com/Ethics/monthlypiece/eithics2002/pom_oct.htm


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