Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?
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2023-04
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Theoretical medicine and bioethics, Volume 44, issue 2, pp. 177-189
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The article examines five controversial views, expressed in Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer’s Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva’s “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”, Julian Savulescu’s “Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children”, and the author’s “A rational cure for prereproductive stress syndrome”. These views have similarities and differences on five levels: the grievances they raise, the proposals they make, the justifications they explicitly use, the justifications they implicitly rely on, and the criticisms that they have encountered. A comparison of these similarities and differences produces two findings. First, some controversial views based on utilitarian considerations would probably fare better flipped upside down and presented as Juvenalian satires. Secondly, a modicum of humor or modesty could help presenters of controversial views to stir polite critical discussion on the themes that they put forward.Description
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Controversy, Utilitarian, Dogmatic, Juvenalian, Satire, Irony, Humor
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Häyry, M 2023, ' Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? ', Theoretical medicine and bioethics, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 177-189 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-022-09604-0