Jeremy Sugarman > Quotes

“As of December 2008 there were 89,095 total ethics postings in PubMed for the period from 1980 through 2005, which represents less than 1 percent of all PubMed postings for this period.”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics

“We define empirical research in biomedical ethics as the application of research methods in the social sciences to the direct examination of issues in biomedical ethics”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics

“There are at least eight ways in which empirical studies can be important in medical ethics.”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics

“THE MERE FACT THAT SOMETHING IS LEGAL OR ILLEGAL DOES NOT MAKE IT MORAL OR IMMORAL”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics

“THE OPINIONS OF EXPERTS DO NOT NECESSARILY ENTAIL MORAL CONCLUSIONS”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics

“Another way in which empirical studies can uncover facts that are relevant to normative arguments is when so-called slippery slope arguments are invoked in moral debates. Slippery slope arguments are those that suggest that if a certain”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics

“But as discussed in detail above, the fact/value distinction precludes moral inference from brute facts.”
― Jeremy Sugarman, Methods in Medical Ethics