title: Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?
abstract: Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objective, rational and true, while religion is irrational and false.
authors.affiliation: Loma Linda University Medical Center, California, USA.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Orr
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Genesen
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003657:Decision Making; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010819:Physician's Role; D011287:Prejudice; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012945:Social Values; D013315:Stress, Psychological