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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Auteurs: Wilkinson, Dominic (Auteur) ; Savulescu, Julian (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
Dans: Bioethics
Année: 2014, Volume: 28, Numéro: 3, Pages: 127-137
Sujets non-standardisés:B withholding treatment
B intensive care
B Resource Allocation
B Health Care Rationing
B Medical Ethics
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