@article{ref1,
title="On clarifying terms in applied ethics discourse: Suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia",
journal="International Philosophical Quarterly",
year="2003",
author="Paterson, C.",
volume="43",
number="3",
pages="351-358",
abstract="All too often in applied ethics debates, there is a danger that a lack of analytical clarity and precision in the use of key terms serves to cloud and confuse the real nature of the debate being undertaken. A particular area of concern in my analysis of the bioethics literature has been the uses to which the key terms &quot;suicide,&quot; &quot;assisted suicide,&quot; and &quot;euthanasia&quot; are put. The modest aim of this article is to render a contribution to the applied ethics debate on these topics by seeking to delimit the scope and meaning of these terms. The criteria of specificity, non-arbitrariness, consistency (between various terms), and the avoidance of strong pejorative presuppositions, supply the main standards guiding my adoption of usages.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0019-0365",
doi="10.5840/ipq200343321",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq200343321"
}