Barney Clark's Key
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20337062 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Rachels (University of Alabama at Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 17 |
| Publication date | 1983-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3561770 |
| PMID | 6853147 |
| OpenAlex | W1964847219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Artificial heart recipient Barney Clark was given a key that would\nhave allowed him to turn off the compressor that ran the heart if he had no\nlonger wished to live tethered to a machine. Rachels argues that Clark's use\nof the key would have been suicide, refutes possible objections to the use of\nthe term in this context, and sees ethical implications for social acceptance\nof suicide and voluntary euthanasia in the public act of giving Clark the key. \n(KIE abstract)
Computer security · Context (archaeology) · Key (lock) · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Law · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |