A Costly Separation Between Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment in Intensive Care
Ethical analyses, professional guidelines and legal decisions support the equivalence thesis for life-sustaining treatment: if it is ethical to withhold treatment, it would be ethical to withdraw the same treatment. In this paper we explore reasons why the majority of medical professionals disagree...
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2014
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Bioethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 127-137 |
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B intensive care B Resource Allocation B Health Care Rationing B Medical Ethics |
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