Patrick Barkham: The 13-year-old who has refused the heart transplant that could save her life | Society. 'I've been in hospital too much. I've had too much trauma associated with hospital," Hannah Jones said as she tried to explain why she turned down a heart transplant that might save her life. Instead, she wanted to return home, where she is likely to die in the company of her parents, her younger brother and her two sisters. It is a terrible decision for anyone, of any age, to make, and unimaginably tough for their family to accept, but Hannah Jones hit the headlines because she is only 13 years old. Hannah was found to have leukaemia at the age of four. After her chemotherapy treatment began, she was diagnosed with a heart muscle disease called cardiomyopathy - a hole in her heart caused by a high-strength drug she had been given to kill off an infection. Hannah's wish to go home was, at first, overridden by the medical authorities.
The Joneses' story raises many difficult questions that have vexed medical ethicists, doctors, parents and politicians for decades. Duhs47.pdf (application/pdf Object) A New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?: The Fossil Fuel Industry's Disinformation Campaign On Climate Change - Climate Ethics. Peter Singer. Writings by Peter Singer [books / book excerpts] · All Animals are Equal. Excerpted from Animal Rights and Human Obligations. 2nd edition, New Jersey, 1989. · Introduction. [articles] · Ethics. . · Who Cares about Cost? · Abortion. . · Animals. . · Dialectic. . · Killing. . · Owl of Minerva. . · Vegetarianism. . · World-Soul. . · Why Vote? [talks] · One World. [reviews] · Stages. . · Animals in Research. . · The Tangled Wing. . · Ethics and Animals. [letters] · Food for Thought. .
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. · One World. . · One World. Interviews and Debates [print] · Humanism Extended? · Living and Dying. . · Dangerous Words. . · Biodiversity. . · Stem Cell Research. . · Peter Singer. Ethics. The field of ethics (or moral philosophy) involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Metaethics investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean. Are they merely social inventions? Do they involve more than expressions of our individual emotions? Metaethical answers to these questions focus on the issues of universal truths, the will of God, the role of reason in ethical judgments, and the meaning of ethical terms themselves.
Normative ethics takes on a more practical task, which is to arrive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. This may involve articulating the good habits that we should acquire, the duties that we should follow, or the consequences of our behavior on others. Table of Contents 1. A. B.
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