Peretti-Watel, Patrick Bendiane, Marc K Galinier, Anne Favre, Roger Lapiana, Jean-Marc Pégliasco, Hervé Moatti, Jean-Paul
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Journal of palliative care
In 1999, the French Parliament established a "right to palliative care", which reactivated public debate about euthanasia. In order to investigate jointly physicians' attitude toward palliative care and euthanasia, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of a national sample of French GPs, oncologists, and neurologists. Overall, 917 physicians partic...
Anand, Paul Hunter, Graham Smith, Ron
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Social Indicators Research
One of the most significant theoretical contributions to welfare analysis across a range of disciplines has been the development of the capabilities framework by Sen and others. Motivated by the claim that freedom should play a key role in social evaluation, the capabilities framework suggests that we consider what it is that people are free to do,...
Kinzie, Susan
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The Washington post
Iltis, Ana S
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Christian bioethics
Roman Catholic healthcare institutions in the United States face a number of threats to the integrity of their missions, including the increasing religious and moral pluralism of society and the financial crisis many organizations face. These organizations in the United States often have fought fervently to avoid being obligated to provide interven...
Wenkel, David H
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Christian bioethics
This article examines the relationship between the principle of double effect and justification for separation surgeries for conjoined twins. First, the principle of double effect is examined in light of its historical context. It is argued that it can only operate under an absolutist view of good and evil that is compatible with the Bible. Given t...
Brody, Jane E
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The New York times on the Web
Published in
The New York times on the Web
Miyata, Hiroaki Shiraishi, Hiromi Kai, Ichiro
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BMC Medical Ethics
BackgroundJapanese people have become increasingly interested in the expression and enhancement of their individual autonomy in medical decisions made regarding medical treatment at and toward the end of life. However, while many Western countries have implemented legislation that deals with patient autonomy in the case of terminal illness, no such...
Stein, Ben
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The New York times on the Web
Barilan, Y Michael
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Bioethics
Accepting the claim that the living have some moral duties with regard to dead bodies, this paper explores those duties and how they bear on the popular travelling exhibition Bodyworlds. I argue that the concept of informed consent presupposes substantial duties to the dead, namely duties that reckon with the meaning of the act in question. An atti...
