Results 81 to 90 of about 3,453,690 (214)

Doctors Can Kill -- Active Euthanasia in South Africa

open access: yes, 2003
Medical practitioners in South Africa will be given the legal right to end the lives of terminally ill patients. This is the practice of active euthanasia, the procedure whereby a medical doctor or a professional nurse can end the life of a terminally ...
Oosthuizen, Hennie
core  

Pandemic Preparedness Planning: Will Provisions for Involuntary Termination of Life Support Invite Active Euthanasia?

open access: yes, 2010
A number of influential reports on influenza pandemic preparedness include recommendations for extra-autonomous decisions to withdraw mechanical ventilation from some patients, who might still benefit from this technology, when demand for ventilators ...
Berger, Jeffrey T
core  

Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2018
Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ   +2 more
doaj  

Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Doctor-Assisted Suicide: Knowledge and Attitudes of Dutch Medical Students

open access: yes, 1996
The objective of the study was to gain insight into the knowledge of and attitudes towards voluntary active euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide (EEDAS) of Dutch medical students, and to determine whether knowledge and attitudes change after a 1-day ...
Muller, M.T.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Legal Developments Concerning Active Euthanasia on Request in the Netherlands

open access: yes, 1987
The author describes social and legal developments in the debate over active euthanasia in the Netherlands. There, as in all of Western Europe, euthanasia is a crime. Although the medical profession in several European countries has rejected efforts to
Gevers, J.K.M.
core   +1 more source

One Physician's Perspective: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 2004
This paper looks at the ambiguities which PAS (physician assisted suicide) and voluntary active euthanasia (VAE ) present to the patient, his or her loved ones and the health-care team.
Pugno, Perry A.
core   +1 more source

Killing and Caring: Is Euthanasia Incompatible With Care?

open access: yes, 1997
The issue of euthanasia continues to be surrounded by controversy, particularly in relation to its moral status and more recently, the significance that health professionals should attach to the principle of respect for patient autonomy.
Willard, Carole
core   +1 more source

Voluntary active euthanasia: Justifications and regulations

open access: yes, 2020
Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category ofeuthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defendsthe position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally andlegally permissible under certain circumstances in which it becomes the ?mostappropriate medical treatment?.
openaire   +1 more source

Abortion, reproductive technology, and euthanasia:: Post-concolliar responses from within the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales 1965-2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This thesis is the product of original research into the responses offered by the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales to the subjects of abortion, reproductive technology, and euthanasia, during the years 1965 to 2000.
Wilson, John
core  

[Attitude towards active voluntary euthanasia].

open access: yesTidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 1991
1,208 adult Norwegians constituting a representative sample of the population (above 20 years of age), were interviewed about doctors' right to practice euthanasia upon request for a dying and suffering patient. 56% were in favour (with varying degrees of agreement), 19% against, and 25% undecided.
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy