Should assisted dying be legalised? [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2014 When an individual facing intractable pain is given an estimate of a few months to live, does hastening death become a viable and legitimate alternative for willing patients? Has the time come for physicians to do away with the traditional notion of healthcare as maintaining or improving physical and mental health, and instead accept their own ...
Barnabas J Gilbert +2 more
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Characteristics of Belgian 'life-ending acts without explicit patient request' : a large-scale death certificate survey revisited [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: “Life-ending acts without explicit patient request,” as identified in robust international studies, are central in current debates on physician-assisted dying.
Bernheim, Jan L +3 more
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Assisted Dying as Intimate Care
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural ResearchHow does asking loved ones to help you die, to help you commit suicide, bend the limits of our relationships and perhaps of care itself? This paper traces the aesthetic and affective considerations of those deciding to die resist against depersonalizing
Miranda Tuckett
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Physician Assisted Dying as an Extension of Healing [PDF]
, 2018 The role of a physician is to provide care for those who seek their assistance. Lisa Yount attributes the most ancient statement about this activity to the Hippocratic Oath.
Marinacci, Zoe I.
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael +7 more
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FoxO1 signaling in B cell malignancies and its therapeutic targeting
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.FoxO1 has context‐specific tumor suppressor or oncogenic character in myeloid and B cell malignancies. This includes tumor‐promoting properties such as stemness maintenance and DNA damage tolerance in acute leukemias, or regulation of cell proliferation and survival, or migration in mature B cell malignancies.
Krystof Hlavac +3 more
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Planning for the End of Life for People with Dementia - Part 2 [PDF]
, 2011 This publication is a discussion about additional end-of-life options which may become legally available at some time in the future, i.e., assisted death (usually called euthanasia or assisted suicide).
Colleen Cartwright
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Insights into PI3K/AKT signaling in B cell development and chronic lymphocytic leukemia
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This Review explores how the phosphoinositide 3‐kinase and protein kinase B pathway shapes B cell development and drives chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a common blood cancer. It examines how signaling levels affect disease progression, addresses treatment challenges, and introduces novel experimental strategies to improve therapies and patient outcomes.
Maike Buchner
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The Constitutional Right to Die: Ethical Considerations [PDF]
, 1997 In this commentary, the author first looks at some ethical reasoning supporting physician-assisted dying. Second, he examines some of the lines that have been drawn between withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment on the one hand, and ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Assisted dying and Lord Falconer’s recommendations; to what extent should medical and public opinion be considered when amending the law relating to assisted dying? [PDF]
, 2019 Assisted dying in the UK is a controversial topic, this is due to a massive peak in public and medical interest in the topic. This is because of two recent Landmark cases Tony Nicklinson and Debbie Purdy.
Lowdon, Dein +3 more
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