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Controlling Death. Highlights from Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference

open access: yesRevista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2019
The 2019 Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference questioned if we’re controlling death by choosing when and how we die. This integrative review compared literature findings with the discussion of the Conference.
Rosamaria Gomes Rodrigues   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

MEDICALLY ASSISTED SUICIDE AT THE LIMIT BETWEEN CRIME AND LAW [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2022
One of the most debated topics in the world is the legalization or non-legalization of euthanasia and medically assisted suicide, a fact that has given rise to many questions starting from extreme situations, whom both legislators and health ...
Lamya-Diana HĂRĂTĂU   +2 more
doaj  

Right to die? [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 2010
Medicine changes—not just in the accumulation of scientific knowledge but in the responsibility the profession has to acknowledge the expectations of society and adjust our attitudes and behaviour accordingly. Just as rigid opposition to all change is wrong-headed, so too is uncritical bending in the breeze of public opinion on matters of high ethical ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Ethics and legal aspects of the right to die with dignity [PDF]

open access: yesMegatrend Revija, 2021
Euthanasia is in liaison with ethics and law. This paper, which aims to contribute to the expert public debate on the introduction of euthanasia into Serbian legislation, the term terminology - euthanasia (as the Right to Die with Dignity) is the first ...
Mirevska Ivana
doaj   +1 more source

Fear, Sovereignty, and the Right to Die

open access: yesSocieties, 2013
This paper addresses the “right to die” through the lens of Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One. Specifically focusing on the case of Tony Nicklinson v.
Jennifer J. Hardes
doaj   +1 more source

Dying with dignity, but what is dignity?

open access: yesSalud Colectiva
Within moral and legal philosophy, this essay critically examines the concept of dignity in the debate on euthanasia, starting from its intrinsically ambiguous and contested character.
Martín D. Farrell
doaj   +1 more source

Euthanasia: National and international experience (based on the European Court of Human Rights practice materials)

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2023
Purpose: The relevance of the study is that today, there is no unanimous position on the right to euthanasia implementation. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in making its decision, relies on the national legislation of the respective state ...
Olena O Orlova   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

POR ACASO… OU NÃO! EXPERIÊNCIA VIVIDA EM VISITA DOMICILIÁRIA NA ÁREA DOS CUIDADOS PALIATIVOS COMUNITÁRIOS

open access: yesSağlık Akademisi Kastamonu, 2022
Introdução: No decorrer do exercício profissional na ECCI (Equipa de Cuidados Continuados Integrados) do Almourol, é realizada visita domiciliária (VD) a doente oncológica em fase terminal com o objetivo de poder ser cuidada no domicilio.
Fátima De Jesus Chibante Camões Pinheiro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

748 cases of suicide assisted by a Swiss right-to-die organisation.

open access: yesSwiss medical weekly, 2003
BACKGROUND AND METHODS In Switzerland, nonmedical right-to-die organisations offer instruction and personal guidance in committing suicide to members suffering from incurable diseases.
G. Bosshard, E. Ulrich, W. Bär
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
wiley   +1 more source

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