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New England Journal of Medicine, 1975
The traditional distinction between active and passive euthanasia requires critical analysis. The conventional doctrine is that there is such an important moral difference between the two that, although the latter is sometimes permissible, the former is always forbidden. This doctrine may be challenged for several reasons.
J. Rachels
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The traditional distinction between active and passive euthanasia requires critical analysis. The conventional doctrine is that there is such an important moral difference between the two that, although the latter is sometimes permissible, the former is always forbidden. This doctrine may be challenged for several reasons.
J. Rachels
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Passive euthanasia and living will
Orvosi Hetilap, 2014This article deals with the notional distinction between murder of first degree and passive euthanasia. In Hungary, active euthanasia is considered to be a murder of first degree, whilst the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and Switzerland have legalized the active form of mercy killing in Europe. The palliative terminal medicine, when e.g.
M. Julesz
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Medical Futility and Involuntary Passive Euthanasia
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2018Conflicts between providers and patients or their families surrounding end-of-life care are both regrettable and extremely challenging, interpersonally and ethically, for all involved. These conflicts often implicate the concept of medical futility. The concept of futility is too often conflated with distinct concepts that are more ethically salient ...
Michael Nair-Collins
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition, 2020
I. Argument 1: the same moral justification given for passive euthanasia supports in some cases active euthanasia over passive euthanasia. Case: Jones has terminal throat cancer and is suffering tremendously.
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I. Argument 1: the same moral justification given for passive euthanasia supports in some cases active euthanasia over passive euthanasia. Case: Jones has terminal throat cancer and is suffering tremendously.
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Ethics, 1976 Recently the Canadian Medical Association has indicated its approval, under certain conditions, of some kinds of instances of what is called "passive" euthanasia. The need for some kind of ruling in this direction is made urgent by very pressing, widespread problems introduced by recent developments in medical technology.
Douglas Walton
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