title: Death, medicine & bioethics.
abstract: The assumptions of philosophy need scrutiny as much the assumptions of medicine do. Scrutiny shows that the philosophical method of bioethics is compromised, for it shares certain fundamental assumptions with medicine itself. To show this requires an unorthodox style of philosophy--a literary one. To show the compromised status of bioethics the paper discusses some seminal utilitarian discussions of the definition of death, of whether it is a bad thing, and of when it ought to occur.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science and Health, University of East London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hunt
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D028663:Ethical Theory; D026822:Ethicists; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012945:Social Values; D026712:Value of Life