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When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Philosophy in Action) by Lisa Tessman is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
What is When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Philosophy in Action) about?
Suppose that in an emergency evacuation of a hospital after a flood, not all of the patients can make it out alive. You are the doctor faced with the choice between abandoning these patients to die alone and in pain, or injecting them with a lethal dose of drugs, without consent, so that they die peacefully. Perhaps no one will be able to blame you whatever you decide, but, whichever action you choose, you will remain burdened by guilt. What happens, in cases like this, when, no matter what you
Who reads When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Philosophy in Action)?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Lisa Tessman
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190657581
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Medical, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25