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Doctors Can Kill -- Active Euthanasia in South Africa
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
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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
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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia
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
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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
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Legal Developments Concerning Active Euthanasia on Request in the Netherlands
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.
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One Physician's Perspective: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
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.
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Killing and Caring: Is Euthanasia Incompatible With Care?
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
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Voluntary active euthanasia: Justifications and regulations
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?.
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Abortion, reproductive technology, and euthanasia:: Post-concolliar responses from within the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales 1965-2000 [PDF]
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
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[Attitude towards active voluntary euthanasia].
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.
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