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UK geriatricians' attitudes to active voluntary euthanasia and physician‐assisted death [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2001 81% considered active voluntary euthanasia never to be justified ethically, although 23% supported legalization in some situations and 13% would be willing to administer active voluntary euthanasia in some situations.
Dickinson, G. +5 more
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Voluntary Active Euthanasia and the Doctrine of Double Effect: A View From Germany
Health Care Analysis, 2004 This paper discusses physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary active euthanasia (VAE), supplies a short history and argues in favour of permitting both once rigid criteria have been set and the cases retro-reviewed.
Klein, Martin
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Hospice nurses\u27 attitudes on active voluntary euthanasia
, 1995 Active voluntary euthanasia is one of the most controversial issues in the nursing and legal systems today. The purpose of this study was to explore hospice nurses\u27 attitudes on active voluntary euthanasia (AVE).
Godfrey, Belinda Arjona
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Legal aspects of active voluntary euthanasia in Australia
, 1993 This 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 ...
Otlowski, Margaret (15940988)
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Euthanasia and faith-based aged-care organisations: The right not to kill?
Church, Communication and Culture, 2023 In this paper we focus on an important specific issue which has not received serious attention in the scholarly literature on euthanasia, namely, that of the coercive imposition (by way of sanction-backed regulations) of the practice of voluntary active ...
Seumas Miller, Virginia Miller
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Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia
BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 Background Doctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of this study was to evaluate, among medical students and residents, the view on euthanasia and its ...
Rogério Aparecido Dedivitis +5 more
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The current, utilitarian debate on the relation between euthanasia and happiness focusses primarily on the subject of dying patients. Where some utilitarians stress how euthanasia may relieve suffering in the process of dying, others emphasize the ...
Donovan van der Haak
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EClinicalMedicine, 2023 Summary: Medical aid in dying (MAID) is a highly controversial ethical issue in the global medical community. Unfortunately, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks coding for MAID.
Uwe Güth +4 more
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Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Physician assisted death (PAD) for patients with a psychiatric disorder is a controversial topic of increasing relevance, since a growing number of countries are allowing it.
SMP van Veen +5 more
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