Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics

by David Lamb

Book Overview

A slippery slope' argument in medical ethics is one that opposes itself to a new proposal on the grounds that it is not per se intolerable but will lead to a situation that is. Lamb evaluates such arguments, demonstrating their centrality to the subject.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0709941668
• ISBN13: 9780709941668
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.6"