Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy. An Argument Against Legislation

Nursing and euthanasia: a review of argument-based ethics literature.

This article gives an overview of the nursing ethics arguments on euthanasia in general, and on nurses' involvement in euthanasia in particular, through an argument-based literature review. An in-depth study of these arguments in this literature will enable nurses to engage in the euthanasia debate. We critically appraised 41 publications published between January 1987 and June 2007. Nursing et...

Cloning: ethics and public policy.

Public policy and the life not worth living: the case against euthanasia.

Enhancement technology, ethics, and public policy.

Introduction Gene technology has spawned a wide range of controversies since the early days of recombinant DNA research in the 1960s. Many scientific and ethical issues are discussed throughout this symposium. A particularly troublesome set of questions arises from the uses of gene technology to change personal characteristics that are within the range of normal but for which some kind of impro...

Ethics, Public Policy and Civic Education

This paper addresses current issues in ethics, public policy and public policy education. I have written about ethical issues in public policy research (Ballard and James) and I have developed codes of ethics in two organizational settings. Yet, this topic is a difficult one. To most public servants, "ethics" is either an abstract topic or one familiar to us only because of highly visible event...