What Drives The Conscience When Mortality Is At Stake?

... conscience. Yet we struggle to find the line between right and wrong, black and white when faced with our own mortality. Only when faced with the fragility of our own lives do we stand down from the benches of judgement and censures to the fields of mortality that would serve and save our own lives. Professor Tariq Ramadan of University of Oxford wrote a piece on medical ethics in his book, “The Radical Reform”, ‘It has appeared, however, as it grew more specialised, reflection sometimes became technical and formal, losing touch with the complexity of the world and of day-to-day realities. It is as if,...