Three cheers for Charley

Three Cheers for Double Effect

The doctrine of double effect, together with other moral principles that appeal to the intentions of moral agents, has come under attack from many directions in recent years, as have a variety of rationales that have been given in favor of it. In this paper, our aim is to develop, defend, and provide a new theoretical rationale for a secular version of the doctrine. Following Quinn (1989), we d...

Three cheers for elective hysterectomy.

Dibattiti Comment on John Goldthorpe / 5 Three Cheers for Unoriginality

In this comment I review Goldthorpe’s recent portrayal of the substance ofBourdieu’s views on the issues of cultural capital, education and class reproduction, byfocusing on three major set of claims that Goldthorpe imputes to Bourdieu. Using morerecent and more representative examples of Bourdieu’s work on education and classreproduction, I show that Bourdieu did not hold the p...

Three Cheers (and Two Quibbles) for Professor Kennedy

Two Cheers for Psychiatry

Critics within psychiatry suggest that too many people are being classified as 'ill' and in need of treatment. Are psychiatrists casting their nets too wide and is society too psychiatry conscious?