Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends
The goal of my paper is show that we should abandon the treatment/enhancement distinction in favour of a particularist approach when evaluating the ethics of non-clinical uses of psychiatric drugs because there is no principled way to draw the distinction between treatment and enhancement. To mee...
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| author | Lee, Jacelyn Yoke Leng |
| author2 | Christopher Louis Suhler |
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| description | The goal of my paper is show that we should abandon the treatment/enhancement
distinction in favour of a particularist approach when evaluating the ethics of non-clinical uses
of psychiatric drugs because there is no principled way to draw the distinction between
treatment and enhancement. To meet my paper’s objective: I will first introduce the
significance of the treatment/enhancement distinction in influencing healthcare policies. In
section two, I give reasons for why I think that if there was an objective way to capture the idea
of normal functioning, the statistical approach would be the best candidate. Next, in section
three, I will argue that both Tyrer and Steinberg’s and Boorse’s statistical approaches are
inadequate in giving us a defensible conception of normal functioning. In light of this, I propose
in the fourth and final section, that we should consider the particularist approach over the
generalist approach. |
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| institution | Nanyang Technological University |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/735962019-12-10T13:52:24Z Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends Lee, Jacelyn Yoke Leng Christopher Louis Suhler School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities The goal of my paper is show that we should abandon the treatment/enhancement distinction in favour of a particularist approach when evaluating the ethics of non-clinical uses of psychiatric drugs because there is no principled way to draw the distinction between treatment and enhancement. To meet my paper’s objective: I will first introduce the significance of the treatment/enhancement distinction in influencing healthcare policies. In section two, I give reasons for why I think that if there was an objective way to capture the idea of normal functioning, the statistical approach would be the best candidate. Next, in section three, I will argue that both Tyrer and Steinberg’s and Boorse’s statistical approaches are inadequate in giving us a defensible conception of normal functioning. In light of this, I propose in the fourth and final section, that we should consider the particularist approach over the generalist approach. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-01T12:11:31Z 2018-04-01T12:11:31Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73596 en 32 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities Lee, Jacelyn Yoke Leng Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends |
| title | Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends |
| title_full | Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends |
| title_fullStr | Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends |
| title_short | Can we take enhancement drugs? It depends |
| title_sort | can we take enhancement drugs it depends |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities |
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