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Responding to “Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics”
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022 The treatment of eating disorders raises many ethical debates given the pervasiveness with which this illness impacts individuals, especially as the length of time with the illness increases.
Rebekah A. Mack, Caroline E. Stanton
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael +7 more
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Frozen Bodies and Future Imaginaries: Assisted Dying, Cryonics, and a Good Death
Religions, 2020 In October of 2018, Norman Hardy became the first individual to be cryopreserved after successful recourse to California’s then recently passed End of Life Options Act. This was a right not afforded to Thomas Donaldson, who in 1993 was legally denied the
Jeremy Cohen
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Causes for Conscientious Objection in Medical Aid in Dying: A Scoping Review
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023 In the light of current legislation on Medical Aid in Dying ─euthanasia and assisted suicide─ in different countries worldwide, there have been some arguments devoted to the right to conscientious objection for healthcare professionals in these specific
Rosana Triviño-Caballero +3 more
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Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022 Background Most individuals with eating disorders will either recover, settle into an unrecovered but self-defined acceptable quality of life, or continue to cycle from crisis to relative stability over time.
Jennifer L. Gaudiani +2 more
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Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying [PDF]
, 2016 More than 20 years ago, even before voters in Oregon had enacted the first aid in dying (AID) statute in the United States, Timothy Quill and colleagues proposed clinical criteria AID. Their proposal was carefully considered and temperate, but there were
Orentlicher, David +3 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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Refusing care as a legal pathway to medical assistance in dying
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2019 Can a competent individual refuse care in order to make their natural death reasonably foreseeable in order to qualify for medical assistance in dying (MAiD)?
Jocelyn Downie, Matthew J Bowes
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Wellcome Open Research, 2020 Background: Legally practiced assisted dying is an ethically complex area in need of empirical and conceptual work. International research suggests that providing assisted dying may be experienced as rewarding and meaningful but also emotionally and ...
Gitte Koksvik
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Medical students writing on death, dying and palliative care : a qualitative analysis of reflective essays [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Medical students and doctors are becoming better prepared to care for patients with palliative care needs and support patients at the end of life. This preparation needs to start at medical school.
Boland, Jason W +3 more
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