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Dilemmas: 3: Life - at Any Cost?

on BBC One London

Ten programmes in which Professor Bernard Williams asks: Can philosophy resolve some contemporary moral dilemmas?

How sacred is life? An elderly patient asks for death. Is there a difference between killing and letting die? A child is born severely deformed and handicapped with spina bifida. How hard should doctors strive to maintain its life?

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor Bernard Williams
Producer:
Chris Jelley

BBC One London

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