Active Euthanasia
bioethics
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Chronic Trajectory
Comatose Patient
death
deliberate life-termination
End Stage Renal Disease
end-of-life ethics
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ethical issues in life-sustaining treatment
Extensor Plantar Reflexes
Firemen
Human Personal Life
Irreversible Coma
Karen Quinlan case
King George III
Law Journal
life support withdrawal
life-prolonging manoeuvre
Lower Mental Functions
medical decision making
Nonvoluntary Active Euthanasia
Nonvoluntary Euthanasia
Oriented Definitions
Passive Euthanasia
physician moral dilemmas
Pneumococcal Meningitis
Quinlan Case
right to die law
Soren Kierkegaard
Spina Bifida
Spina Bifida Children
Voluntary Active Euthanasia
Voluntary Euthanasia
Voluntary Passive Euthanasia
Product details
- ISBN 9780367017453
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Advances in technology have enabled the medical profession to keep people alive long after the normal possibilities of human living--and even of consciousness itself--have ceased. The Karen Quinlan case has focused public attention on the painful decision faced by those involved in such instances and on the intractability of the moral, medical, legal, and economic issues involved. These issues are not new; indeed, such problems are as old as death itself. But the burden laid on us by our own science, and by our own altered family structures, appears to be of a new order. It raises issues that intimately affect the quality of life in our society and that require new approaches. The issues discussed in this book demand the sensitive attention of doctors, theologians, philosophers, social workers, lawyers--of all those, in short, whose work brings them in contact with the kind of decision the voluntary termination of life represents.
