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Rationally Speaking #199 - Jessica Flanigan on "Why people should have the right to self-medicate"
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:42:47
Publish Date: 2018-01-08 01:00:00
Description: This episode features Jessica Flanigan, professor of normative and applied ethics, making the case that patients should have the right to take pharmaceutical drugs without needing to get a prescription from a doctor. Jessica and Julia discuss a series of related questions, such as: Should there be exceptions made for drugs that have negative repercussions on society as a whole? And what is the morally relevant difference between a doctor imposing treatment on someone without consent, and the government withholding treatment from someone without consent?
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