Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?

Authors
Orr, RD Genesen, LB
Citation
Rd. Orr et Lb. Genesen, Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?, J MED ETHIC, 24(6), 1998, pp. 385-387
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science","General & Internal Medicine
Journal title
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
ISSN journal
03066800 → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
385 - 387
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-6800(199812)24:6<385:MEARRO>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honourj requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beli efs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objecti ve, rational and true, while religion is irrational and false.