2201 - Applied Ethics
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This collection contains Flinders' staff research in Applied Ethics, reportable as part of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), from 2001-
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ItemRationality, euthanasia and the sanctity of life(Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, 2005)
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ItemEvidence-based Medicine and Equity: The Exclusion of Disadvantaged Groups(Springer-Verlaag, 2005)
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ItemMorality and the role-differentiated behaviour of lawyers( 2004)According to a common view of the legal profession the proper professional conduct of lawyers is itself morally debilitating; more precisely, it is thought that simply in performing their professional role lawyers will come to suffer a kind of moral blindness. While I do not think this view is accurate, it is not necessarily an expression of simple prejudice; on the contrary, this view can be founded on a respectable philosophical argument. the argument I have in mind here has been given careful expression by Richard Wasserstrom, who claims that the lawyer-client relationship leads lawyers to occupy what he calls 'a simplified universe which is strikingly immoral'.