Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa

The purpose of this paper is to defend the traditional application of the principle of double effect as a criterion for assessing the permissibility of actions that have as their common aim to end the suffering of seriously ill patients. According to this principle, euthanasia and physician-assisted...

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Autor principal:	Miranda M,Alejandro
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2012
Materias:	Double effect principle Euthanasia Suicide, assisted
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720120002000172013-04-11Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo FigueroaMiranda M,Alejandro Double effect principle Euthanasia Suicide, assisted The purpose of this paper is to defend the traditional application of the principle of double effect as a criterion for assessing the permissibility of actions that have as their common aim to end the suffering of seriously ill patients. According to this principle, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are always illicit acts, while the same is not said for other actions that bring about patient's death as a foreseen effect, namely, palliative treatments that hasten death or failure or interruption of life support. The reason for this difference is that, in the first two cases, the patient's death is intended as a means of pain relief; whereas, in the latter two, death is only a side effect of a medical act, an act justifiable if it is necessary to achieve a proportionate good. In a recent issue of this Journal, Professor Rodolfo Figueroa denied the soundness of the principle of double effect and maintained that all actions described above should be considered equivalent in law enforcement. Here, the author presents a reply to that argument, and also offers a justification of the afore said principle's core, that is, the moral and legal relevance of the distinction between intended effects and foreseen side effects.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.140 n.2 20122012-02-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872012000200017es10.4067/S0034-98872012000200017
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description	The purpose of this paper is to defend the traditional application of the principle of double effect as a criterion for assessing the permissibility of actions that have as their common aim to end the suffering of seriously ill patients. According to this principle, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are always illicit acts, while the same is not said for other actions that bring about patient's death as a foreseen effect, namely, palliative treatments that hasten death or failure or interruption of life support. The reason for this difference is that, in the first two cases, the patient's death is intended as a means of pain relief; whereas, in the latter two, death is only a side effect of a medical act, an act justifiable if it is necessary to achieve a proportionate good. In a recent issue of this Journal, Professor Rodolfo Figueroa denied the soundness of the principle of double effect and maintained that all actions described above should be considered equivalent in law enforcement. Here, the author presents a reply to that argument, and also offers a justification of the afore said principle's core, that is, the moral and legal relevance of the distinction between intended effects and foreseen side effects.
author	Miranda M,Alejandro
author_facet	Miranda M,Alejandro
author_sort	Miranda M,Alejandro
title	Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa
title_short	Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa
title_full	Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa
title_fullStr	Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa
title_full_unstemmed	Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa
title_sort	eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: réplica al profesor rodolfo figueroa
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2012
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Eutanasia, suicidio asistido y principio del doble efecto: Réplica al profesor Rodolfo Figueroa

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