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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]
, 1997 Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
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A Moment in Human Development: Legal Protection, Ethical Standards and Social Policy on the Selective Non-Treatment of Handicapped Neonates [PDF]
, 1985 Selective non-treatment decisions involving severely handicapped neonates have recently come under renewed judicial and legislative scrutiny. In this article, the author examines the legal, ethical and social considerations attendant to the non-treatment
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Vascular Health and Risk Management, 2015 Eirik Helvig,1 Lars Thomassen,2 Ulrike Waje-Andreassen,2 Halvor Naess3 1Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Jonas Liesgt, Bergen, 2Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, 3Centre for Age-related Medicine ...
Helvig E +3 more
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Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2023 Tingting Zhu,1,2 Dongling Liu,1 Agnes van der Heide,2 Ida J Korfage,2 Judith AC Rietjens2 1Department of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center ...
Zhu T +4 more
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Ethical dimensions of paediatric nursing: A rapid evidence assessment [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Background: Paediatric nurses often face complex situations requiring decisions that sometimes clash with their own values and beliefs, or with the needs of the children they care for and their families.
Bagnasco, Annamaria +8 more
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Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment
BMJ, 2002 Ms B, as she was called in court and in the media, was a 43 year old professional woman who in 1999 had a haemorrhage in a cavernous haemangioma in her upper spinal cord. After an almost complete recovery she had a re-bleed in February 2001, which rendered her quadriplegic and dependent on artificial ventilation. Specialists who reviewed her all agreed
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Process of life-sustaining treatment in general hospital: withholding and withdrawing
Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 2011 Introducción: La limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico (LET) es una práctica frecuente en los Servicios de Medicina Intensiva (SMI) que asocia a una mortalidad elevada.
Lorenzo Socias Crespí +1 more
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Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: a Queensland case [PDF]
, 2012 Findings from a Queensland coronial inquest highlight the complex clinical, ethical and legal issues that arise in end-of-life care when clinicians and family members disagree about a diagnosis of clinical futility.
Lawrence, Sean +5 more
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On Charlie Gard: Ethics, Culture, and Religion [PDF]
, 2018 The 2017 story of Charlie Gard is revisited. Upon the British High Court’s ruling in favor of the physicians that the infant should be allowed to die without the experimental treatment, the view of the public as well as the opinions of bioethicists and ...
Lee, Marvin J. H.
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Próba oceny sytuacji granicznych związanych z chorobą i umieraniem [DEATH AND DYING – BO RDERLINE CASES] [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2013 The aim of this article is an attempt to evaluate the following issues related to thelast stage of illness and death: discontinue of artificial nutrition and hydration, discontinueor refrain from life-saving therapy or palliative sedation.Mentioned cases
Bogna Wach
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