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Access to Palliative Care

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
Increasingly, there has been a push for better access to palliative care. It could be the result of the baby boomer generation reaching the end-of-life stages, recent euthanasia legalization (for children in the Netherlands, and for adults in Quebec ...
Gabriella Foe
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

Voluntary Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and the Goals of Medicine

open access: yes, 2006
It is plausible that what possible courses of action patients may legitimately expect their physicians to take is ultimately determined by what medicine as a profession is supposed to do and, consequently, that we can determine the moral acceptability of
Varelius, Jukka, JUKKA VARELIUS
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

Is the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide Compatible With Good End-of-Life Care?

open access: yes, 2009
Many have held that there is some kind of incompatibility between a commitment to good end-of-life care and the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. This opposition to physician-assisted suicide encompasses a cluster of different claims.
Gill, Michael B.
core   +1 more source

Spanish regulation of euthanasia and physician- assisted suicide

open access: yes, 2021
In March 2021, the Spanish Congress approved the law regulating euthanasia, that regulates both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). In this article, we analyse the Spanish law regulating euthanasia and PAS, comparing it with the rest of the ...
Moreno Milán, Beatriz   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Strategies for preventing gender‐based violence in healthcare services: Evidence synthesis for health policy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Violence against women remains a serious public health problem and a violation of human rights that affects women's health. Healthcare providers play a fundamental role in preventing and responding to violence against women and girls.
Odette del Risco Sánchez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facing a request for assisted death - views of Finnish physicians, a mixed method study

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics
Background Assisted death, including euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS), is under debate worldwide, and these practices are adopted in many Western countries.
Reetta P. Piili   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

End-of-Life Discussion

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
The discussion around end-of-life issues largely centers on the right of the patient to choose (to refuse life sustaining treatment, or, in some cases, to end his or her life through physician assisted suicide or euthanasia where it has been legalized ...
Gabriella Foe
doaj   +1 more source

Professional Organizations' Position Statements on Physician- Assisted Suicide: A Case for Studied Neutrality

open access: yes, 2003
Position statements opposing legalization of physician- assisted suicide by organizations such as the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine rightly emphasize that palliative care should be the standard of care for the dying,
Quill, Timothy E., Cassel, Christine K.
core   +1 more source

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