PHIL 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Interracial Marriage, Artificial Insemination, Body Piercing
24 Aug 2016
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Medical ethics 2/19/16: bain & levy amputation by choice . The desire for amputation: desire is present for years, often since childhood. Leads some to bind limbs to stimulate amputation. In favor of amputation: reasons to allow surgeons to amputate healthy limbs. Argument 1: harm prevention: dangerous alternative (sawing off leg) Biid patients often self-amputate if refused: or injure themselves to force surgeons to amputate. 18: if amputation refused, patients will self-amputate. 19: self-amputation causes more harm than surgical amputation. 22: thus, surgical amputation is morally good. 23: doctors should act on competent patients" carefully considered decisions. 25: wannabes carefully consider the decision to amputate. 26: thus, doctors should act on wannabes" decisions to amputate. Reasons suggesting competence: aware of what is going on, know the limb is theirs, know it will be removed, know what will result, able to make other decisions.
