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The Principle of Double Effect and Terminal Sedation

Medical Law Review, 2001
Williams, Glenys, 'The Principle of Double Effect and Terminal Sedation', Medical Law Review, 9 (2001), pp.41-53 ...
Glenys Williams
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The Principle of Double Effect

2020
D. Cerny
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Palliative Sedation, Compassionate Extubation, and the Principle of Double Effect: An Ethical Analysis

The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2021
Palliative sedation is a well-recognized and commonly used medical practice at the end of life for patients who are experiencing refractory symptoms that cannot be controlled by other means of medical management.
J. Potter, Steven Shields, Renée Breen
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The Function of the Principle of Double Effect

Theological Studies, 1993
With considerable frequency moral dilemmas have prompted ethicists to turn to the principle of double effect. Questions concerning sterilization, prophylactic devices, hunger-fasts, military strikes, and euthanasia have made us think of the principle as a handy problem-solving device. Raise a moral conflict, and the principle is profered.
J. Keenan
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Absolute principles and double effect

Analysis, 1976
MORALISTS have traditionally appealed to the Principle of Double Effect (PDE) in order to maintain certain absolute moral prohibitions, such as that against the intentional killing of human beings, in the face of situations which seem to reduce them to absurdity or incoherence.
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Analgesia, Virtue, and the Principle of Double Effect

Journal of Palliative Care, 2000
The principle of double effect is widely used to permit the administration of narcotics and sedatives with the intent to palliate dying patients, even though the administration of these drugs may cause hastening of death. In recent medical literature, this principle's validity has been severely criticized, causing health care providers to fear ...
L A, Hawryluck, W R, Harvey
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Deception and the Principle of Double Effect

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2008
The Principle of Double Effect has been with us since the Middle Ages and has sanctified actions that might otherwise be viewed as morally wrong. What I wish to show in this brief perspective is that an overlooked element in the discussions of this principle raises a serious question about its applicability.
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Double effect, principle of

2018
‘Double effect’ refers to the good and bad effects which may foreseeably follow from one and the same act. The principle of double effect originates in Aquinas’ ethics, and is supposed to guide decision about acts with double effect where the bad effect is something that must not be intended, such as the death of an innocent person.
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The Principle of Double Effect

2018
This chapter is an evaluation of the principle of double effect. The principle of double effect is a principle congenial to the just war theory and is appealed to by just war theorists. It is a principle that under certain circumstances can relieve perpetrators of war actions that inflict suffering on innocents (or have other harmful or evil effects ...
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Controlled drugs and the principle of double effect

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2006
The role of district nurses in the effective management of pain in palliative care has been strengthened by recent amendments to the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2005 that allow district nurses who are independent or supplementary prescribers to prescribe and administer controlled drugs. However, the right to prescribe controlled drugs also
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