Welfare in the Medical Profession: A Response to Graham and Colleagues

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Notes

1. For a thorough treatment of the good of health with respect to well-being, see Pellegrino and Thomasma (1981).

2. Graham and colleagues (2015) survey and dismiss such views for independent reasons.

3. Parental limits in choosing treatment options for their children demonstrate that the welfare of the child matters independently from the interests of the parents.

4. Here I define capacity as a disposition of an organism based on the kind of organism it is. These are tentative and broad capacities, but for a more thorough treatment of the good common to all human beings see Arnhart (1998).