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- Title
LA HUELGA DE HAMBRE COMO SUICIDIO INTENCIONAL. UNA PROPUESTA DE VALORACIóN MORAL DESDE LA TRADICIóN CENTRAL DE LA éTICA.
- Authors
Montecinos, Alejandro Miranda; Correa, Joaquín García-Huidobro; Contreras-Aguirre, Sebastián
- Abstract
The ethical problem of hunger strikes has accommodated competing solutions, even in the context of ethical theories that reject suicide. Some believe the honesty of the subjective goal is enough in itselfto justify the hunger striker's action. Others, although they are a minority, argue a hunger strike is a reprehensible act per se, because it implies a direct attempt on the person's life or health. This paper defends the second interpretation. According to the authors, a hunger strike is a case of intentional suicide. Therefore, it is never in any way licit to perform an act of this nature.
- Subjects
HUNGER strikes; SUICIDE; ACT psychology; ARTIFICIAL feeding; ENDS &; means; ETHICS
- Publication
Persona y Bioética, 2015, Vol 19, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
0123-3122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5294/pebi.2015.19.1.6