num_pages: 134
description: A `slippery slope' argument in medical ethics is one that opposes itself to a new proposal on the grounds that it is not per se intolerable but will lead to a situation that is. Lamb evaluates such arguments, demonstrating their centrality to the subject.
language: English
title: Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics
titlecomplete: Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics
publisher: Croom Helm