Defining life: the ethical context for human quality questions.
The links between ethics, medicine and the law cannot readily produce appropriate criteria for human quality questions, largely because ethics are misconstrued where they are not excluded; but also because the science at issue is full of unknowns. The paper surveys issues in eugenics, abortion and euthanasia.
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Brett-Crowther Environmental Consultants, Gloucester, England.
D000025:Abortion, Eugenic / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005053:Eugenics; D028601:Euthanasia, Active / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011155:Population Control; D011247:Pregnancy; D011788:Quality of Life; D044469:Racial Groups; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012923:Social Class; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006113:United Kingdom; D015974:Wrongful Life