Interfering with Nature
作者:
RICHARD NORMAN,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 1
页码: 1-12
ISSN:0264-3758
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1996.tb00144.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTCertain kinds of medical treatment are often held to be morally unacceptable because they are an ‘interference with nature’. I suggest a way in which we can make sense of such ideas. We can make significant choices only against a background of conditions which we regard as ‘natural’, and these will typically include such facts as those of birth and death, of youth and age, and of sexual relations. I argue, however, that such ideas, though intelligible, do not establish any valid moral objection to, for instance, the use of ovarian tissue for assisted con
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