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Is Existence Ever an Injury?: The Wrongful Life Cases

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The Law-Medicine Relation: A Philosophical Exploration

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine ((PHME,volume 9))

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Although my topic is the wrongful life cases: Is existence ever an injury?, the basic question, however, is not whether or not one’s life may be considered an injury, philosophically or physically, but whether or not being alive is ever, in law, something for which one should receive monetary compensation from another.

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  1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Angela R. Holder

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  1. School of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

    Stuart F. Spicker Ph.D. (Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care (Philosophy) & Joseph M. Healey Jr. J.D. (Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care (Law) (Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care (Philosophy) &  (Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care (Law)

  2. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA

    H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. Ph.D., M.D. (Rosemary Kennedy Professor of Philosophy of Medicine) (Rosemary Kennedy Professor of Philosophy of Medicine)

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Holder, A.R. (1981). Is Existence Ever an Injury?: The Wrongful Life Cases. In: Spicker, S.F., Healey, J.M., Engelhardt, H.T. (eds) The Law-Medicine Relation: A Philosophical Exploration. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8407-3_14

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