(Q1423147)

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principle of double effect

set of ethical criteria permitting certain actions when one's otherwise legitimate act may also cause harm

  • rule of double effect
  • double-effect reasoning
  • double effect
  • PDE
  • doctrine of double effect
  • DDE
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princip dvojího účinku
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Double Effect Principle
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Principio del duplice effetto
Doppio effetto, dottrina del
Dottrina del doppio effetto
Dottrina del duplice effetto
Teoria del doppio effetto
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Health Care Ethics
4. Ethical Issues / b. The Question of a Right to Life / i. Human Life: Abortion, ii. Human Death: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide - “the doctrine of double effect.”
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The Doctrine of Double Effect
Key works Apart from Mangan 1949, a key modern source on double effect is Foot 1967. See also Boyle Jr 1980 on double effect's four conditions. For an influential critique see Bennett 1980.
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