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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
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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

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
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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

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

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

Physicians' Role in Physician-Assisted Suicide Discussions

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2004
Physicians of patients who request physician-assisted suicide should not avoid the subject and should try to discuss the patients' specific concerns and fears with them. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Wendy S, Johnston, Paul, Bascom
openaire   +2 more sources

The regulation of stem cell fate and its application in neural regeneration

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.
Regulating stem cell fate is crucial for neural regeneration. This review summarizes key physical, biological, and chemical strategies and their applications in repairing nerve injuries, providing new insights for regenerative medicine. Abstract Regulating the fate of stem cells (SCs) is a key technical problem in the field of regenerative medicine and
Yuexin He   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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