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Tarred & feathered - talking with Robert Young about the emergence of applied ethics in the 1970s


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In this episode we talk with Prof Robert Young from La Trobe University about the changing nature of philosophy in the 1970s, emergence of applied ethics, and early days of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria.

References

  • Young, Robert. "Some Criteria for Making Decisions Concerning the Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources." Theory and Decision 6, no. 4 (1975): 439-55.
  • Young, Robert. "Voluntary and Nonvoluntary Euthanasia." The Monist  (1976): 264-83.
  • Young, Robert. "Voluntary Euthanasia." Medical Journal of Australia 142, no. 2 (1985): 166-66.

Music & Photo

  • City Plaza - Dan Bodan
  • Image modified "Bill Nye's History of the United States. Illustrated by F. Opper"

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