Citation
Spiegel, Rainer (2019) Protecting patients who lack a voice. Animal Sentience 27(11)
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Adrian Treves, Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, and William S. Lynn, Just preservation
Abstract
Neither human young today nor future human generations nor non-human species have a voice in protecting the biosphere. Treves et al. propose courts and trustees for defending their interests. I describe an analogy with attempts to represent the interests of children and comatose patients in medicine.
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