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Dying in a terminal society: a response to Maung

Published:2023-12-22 Issue: Volume: Page:jme-2022-108777
ISSN:0306-6800
Container-title:Journal of Medical Ethics
language:en
Short-container-title:J Med Ethics

Author:

Hudson Harry^ORCID

Abstract

Maung argues that an externalist understanding of mental disorder exposes how, if society was more just for the most deprived, patterns of access to assisted dying might be different. I counter that reducing inequality lacks relevance to the immediate permissibility of assisted dying for mental disorder, owing to the need for solutions for those in distress. I suggest that the question of assistance in death for mental disorders is one of pragmatic politics, not for obfuscatory philosophy.

Publisher

BMJ

Subject

Health Policy,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Issues, ethics and legal aspects,Health (social science)

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