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Euthanasia and assisted suicide in patients with personality disorders: a review of current practice and challenges

open access: yesBorderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2020
Background Over the last two decades an increasing number of countries have legalized euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) leading to considerable debate over the inherent ethical dilemmas.
Lars Mehlum   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Longitudinal Study on Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression Among Medical Staff in China

open access: yesHealth Care Science, EarlyView.
A six‐month study of 2650 medical staff found post‐traumatic stress disorder and depression bidirectionally predicted each other, and both drove later anxiety. These findings highlight the need for integrated early screening and intervention strategies targeting post‐traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression in high‐stress healthcare settings ...
Zongju Chen   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legitimacy of Prohibiting Euthanasia

open access: yesBioéthiqueOnline, 2015
ohn Arras argues against the legalization of physician- assisted suicide and active euthanasia on the basis of social costs that he anticipates will result from legalization.
Gildenhuys, Peter
doaj  

Argumenty w sporze o legalizację eutanazji i wspomaganego samobójstwa. Część I

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2018
ARGUMENTS IN THE DISPUTE OVER LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE – PART I The aim of this article is to present the arguments used in the debate on the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Bogna Wach
doaj   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy -- or Medicalizing Suicide?

open access: yes, 1999
Assisted suicide, many argue, honors self-determination in returning control of their dying to patients themselves. But physician assistance and measures proposed to safeguard patients from coercion in fact return ultimate authority over this "private ...
Salem, Tania
core   +1 more source

New Medical Schools, Access to Physicians, and Health Outcomes: Evidence From Japan

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyse the impact of the construction of medical schools and associated university hospitals in Japan during the 1970s, which was primarily driven by ‘One Prefecture, One Medical School Policy’ (OPOMS). We find that the number of physicians increased significantly in prefectures where a medical school was built, and this effect persisted ...
Kisho Hoshi
wiley   +1 more source

Pet Euthanasia and Human Euthanasia

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics
Photo ID 213552852 © Yuryz | Dreamstime.com Abstract A criticism of assisted death is that it’s contrary to the Hippocratic Oath. This opposition to assisted death assumes that death is harmful to the person who dies. In this paper, I argue that the
Jason Chen
doaj   +5 more sources

When Suicide Is Not Suicide: Self-induced Morbidity and Mortality in the General Hospital

open access: yesRambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2015
Suicidal phenomena in the general hospital can take a variety of forms that can be parsed by taking into account whether or not the patient 1) intended to hasten death, and 2) included collaborators, including family and health care providers, in the ...
J. Michael Bostwick
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking law in books versus law in action in China's first experiment of a personal insolvency regime: Towards a more debtor‐oriented procedural design

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Although a local experiment, the promulgation of the Regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on Personal Bankruptcy (SPBR) in 2020 was hailed as a significant milestone in China's insolvency lawmaking which has thus far addressed only corporate insolvencies.
Jenny Fu, Jin Chun
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide in Alzheimer's Disease

open access: yes, 1997
This paper takes up the question of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), reviewing arguments for and against in a broad interdisciplinary context.
Post, Stephen G.
core   +1 more source

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