Response to: ‘Questioning the significance of the non-identity problem in applied ethics’ by Lawlor

The implication of Lawlor's argument, if I have understood it, is that in such a book-one intended for a multidisciplinary audience or a lay audience-it is the (?moral) duty of the writer to provide, for any issue discussed, a balanced overview of all the areas of controversy among experts in t...

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Published inJournal of medical ethics Vol. 41; no. 11; pp. 897 - 898
Main Author Hope, Tony
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.11.2015
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subjects
Audiences
Beneficence
Bioethics
Choice Behavior
Commentary
Female
Humans
Medical ethics
Moral Obligations
Personal Autonomy
Philosophers
Pregnancy
Pregnancy in Adolescence - ethics
Reproductive Behavior - ethics
Writers
Writing
Ethics
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Summary:The implication of Lawlor's argument, if I have understood it, is that in such a book-one intended for a multidisciplinary audience or a lay audience-it is the (?moral) duty of the writer to provide, for any issue discussed, a balanced overview of all the areas of controversy among experts in the field. [...]Lawlor says of the non-identity effect that almost no one challenges this claim and that it is essentially an empirical claim about human biology.
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ISSN:0306-6800
1473-4257
DOI:10.1136/medethics-2015-102795