In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the CourtOs deference toward the Ouniversal, O Oimpartial, O and OreasonedO knowledge of the medical profession and its disregard of the Oparticular, O Oinvolved, O and OemotionalO knowledge of patients seemed inevitable as well as justified. But was it? This book argues that it is...
In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge...
