Law, Legal Philosophy

In this essay, we focus on the moral justification and enforcement strategy of a highly controversial measure to redress medical brain drain: the duty to stay. We argue that the moral justification for this duty lies primarily in the fact that medical students impose high risks on their fellow citizens while receiving their medical training, which in turn, gives them a reciprocity-based reason to temporarily prioritize the medical needs of their fellow citizens. We also claim that responsibility for the enforcement of this duty falls primarily with recipient states, which are morally obliged to close their borders to those workers who have not yet discharged their duty to stay.

The contributors to Ethics of Life:
Contemporary Iberian Debates ask the
following questions:
n What are the different rhetorical
strategies employed by writers,
artists, filmmakers, and activists to
react to the degradation of life and
climate change?
n How are urban movements using
environmental issues to resist
corporate privatization of the
commons?
Ethics of Life
Contemporary Iberian Debates
Edited by KATARZYNA BEILIN and WILLIAM VIESTENZ
n What is the shape of Spanish
debates on reproductive rights and
biotechnology?
n What is the symbolic significance of
the bullfighting debate and other
human/animal issues in today’s
political turmoil in Spain?
Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz
The Environment in Literature and the Arts in Spain
Carmen Flys-Junquera and Tonia Raquejo
Nunca Máis: Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster
John H. Trevathan
Tourism and “Quality of Life” at the End of Franco’s Dictatorship
Eugenia Afinoguénova
Die and Laugh in the Anthropocene: Disquieting Realism
and Dark Humor in Biutiful and Nocilla experience
Katarzyna Beilin
Cultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural
Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid
Matthew Feinberg and Susan Larson
Degrowth and Ecological Economics in Twenty-First-Century
Spain: Toward a Posthumanist Economy
Luis I. Prádanos
Reproductive Rights in Spain: From “Abortion Tourism” to
“Reproductive Destination”
Pablo de Lora
Mar adentro and the Question of Freedom
Paul Begin
Still Different? Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture in Spain
Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Beilin
Iberian Cultural Studies beyond the Human: Exploring the
Life History of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja in Spanish
Anthropology and Popular Film
Daniel Ares López
The Bull Also Rises: The Political Redemption of the Beast in
La pell de brau by Salvador Espriu
William Viestenz
Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers
John Beusterien
Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead: The Civil War
and Spain’s Political Present
Sebastiaan Faber
Afterword
Spain: Taking the Alternative?
Martín López-Vega and Luis Martín-Estudillo