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Tytuł:
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Active and Passive Physician-Assisted Dying and the Terminal Disease Requirement.
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Autorzy:
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Varelius J; .
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Źródło:
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Bioethics [Bioethics] 2016 Nov; Vol. 30 (9), pp. 663-671. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Sep 15.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Publication: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell
Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Basil Blackwell, c1987-
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MeSH Terms:
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Euthanasia, Passive*
Euthanasia/*ethics
Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary/*ethics
Physicians/*psychology
Suicide, Assisted/*ethics
Euthanasia, Active ; Humans
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Contributed Indexing:
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Keywords: Non-terminal patient; non-voluntary passive euthanasia; physician-assisted suicide; terminal patient; voluntary active euthanasia; voluntary passive euthanasia
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20160916 Date Completed: 20180426 Latest Revision: 20181202
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Update Code:
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20240104
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DOI:
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10.1111/bioe.12282
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PMID:
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27628037
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The view that voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be made available for terminal patients only is typically warranted by reference to the risks that the procedures are seen to involve. Though they would appear to involve similar risks, the commonly endorsed end-of-life practices referred to as passive euthanasia are available also for non-terminal patients. In this article, I assess whether there is good reason to believe that the risks in question would be bigger in the case of voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide than in that of passive euthanasia. I propose that there is not. On that basis, I suggest that limiting access to voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to terminal patients only is not consistent with accepting the existing practices of passive euthanasia.
(© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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