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  1. Is 'Natural Death' an Illusion?Dallas M. High - 1978 - Hastings Center Report 8 (4):37-42.
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  • Setting Limits.Daniel Callahan - 1989 - Hypatia 4 (2):169-178.
    In Setting Limits, Daniel Callahan advances the provocative thesis that age be a limiting factor in decisions to allocate certain kinds of health services to the elderly. However, when one looks at available data, one discovers that there are many more elderly women than there are elderly men, and these older women are poorer, more apt to live alone, and less likely to have informal social and personal supports than their male counterparts. Older women, therefore, will make the heaviest demand (...)
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  • The Morality of Naturalness.Tuija Takala - 2004 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 (1):15-19.
    In discussions among nonphilosophers, the ethical argument from naturalness frequently comes up. “Of course, cloning should be banned—it is unnatural.” “Surely you cannot deny that homosexuality is unnatural.” “The immorality of gene technology is apparent because things like that do not happen in nature. Genes do not jump between species and crossbreeding produces infertile offspring.” Even those who come from a philosophical background can catch themselves thinking, “That is unnatural!” and finding grounds for suspicion from the thought. But what do (...)
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  • What's the use of human dignity within palliative care?Lars Sandman - 2002 - Nursing Philosophy 3 (2):177-181.
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  • The Political Uses of Natural Death.Ivan Illich - 1974 - The Hastings Center Studies 2 (1):3.
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