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A Concept Analysis of Voluntary Active Euthanasia
Nursing Forum, 2006Euthanasia has a wide range of classifications. Confusion exists in the application of specific concepts to various studies.To analyze the concept of voluntary active euthanasia using Walker and Avant's concept analysis method.A comprehensive literature review from various published literature and bibliographies.Clinical, ethical, and policy ...
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Active voluntary euthanasia : a case for Victoria
2022This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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The example of Christ and voluntary active euthanasia
Journal of Religion & Health, 1986The Christian church's aversion to suicide need not inform its position on voluntary active euthanasia any more than it informs its understanding of the role Jesus played in securing his own death. When the ontological polarity of freedom and destiny is kept in balance and is in agreement spontaneously and independently, culpability for the death of ...
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U.K. PHYSICIANS'ATTITUDES TOWARD ACTIVE VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Death Studies, 2002A comparison of the views of geriatric medicine physicians and intensive care physicians in the United Kingdom on the topics of active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide revealed rather different attitudes. Eighty percent of geriatricians, but only 52% of intensive care physicians, considered active voluntary euthanasia as never ...
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Legal aspects of active voluntary euthanasia in Australia
2023This thesis examines the present criminal law position with respect to medically administered active voluntary euthanasia in Australia. Under existing criminal law principles, whilst there is some scope for passive euthanasia, active volunta.rY euthanasia is treated as murder and no account is taken of the special circumstances existing in such cases ...
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2. The Case for Active Voluntary Euthanasia
Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1986I want to begin by making the fundamental point that the question is not whether decisions to end human lives ought to be made but, rather, who makes these decisions, and on the basis of what principles or values. For the fact is that such decisions are already being made, and inevitably must be made, in modern hospitals.For almost any life-threatening
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A Case Against Justified Non-Voluntary Active Euthanasia (The Groningen Protocol)
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2008The Groningen Protocol allows active euthanasia of severely ill newborns with unbearable suffering. Defenders of the protocol insist that the protocol refers to terminally ill infants and that quality of life should not be a factor in the decision to euthanize an infant.
Alan, Jotkowitz, S, Glick, B, Gesundheit
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Oncology nurses?? attitudes toward the legalization of voluntary active euthanasia
Cancer Nursing, 1994Euthanasia is not a new concept. However, there is a growing trend to legalize voluntary active euthanasia. The purpose of this study was to explore oncology nurses' attitudes toward voluntary active euthanasia. The population consisted of 200 registered nurses who were members of the Oncology Nurses' Society and who resided in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
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Bioethics and Political Ideology: The Case of Active Voluntary Euthanasia
Bioethics, 1997In different countries responses to important bioethical issues are different, as exemplified by the attitudes towards the voluntary and active forms of medical euthanasia. But why is this the case? My suggestion is that the roots of the variety are, to a considerable degree, ideological.The most important present‐day political ideologies all have ...
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Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia: Why the Difference in Attitude?
Nursing Ethics, 1995It appears that the attitudes of health professionals differ towards suicide and voluntary active euthanasia. An acceptance of, if not an agreement with, voluntary active eutha nasia exists, while there is a general consensus that suicide should be prevented. This paper searches for a working definition of suicide, to discover ethical reasons for the
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