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1. And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead

Author

Rubenstein, Alan, Lizza, John P., Menzel, Paul T., Lee, Daniel E., and Arbisser, Lisa Brothers

Subjects
Brain death -- Patient outcomes, Life support systems (Critical care) -- Ethical aspects, Medical ethics -- Analysis, Persistent vegetative state -- Care and treatment -- Patient outcomes, Biological sciences, Health, Care and treatment, Analysis, Ethical aspects, Patient outcomes
Abstract

To the Editor: D. Alan Shewmon's work over the last decade has clearly awakened the bioethics community from its dogmatic slumbers. Easy acceptance of the "somatic integration" rationale for equating [...]

Published
2009

2. Profoundly diminished life: the casualties of coercion

Author

Morreim, E. Haavi

Subjects
Right to die -- Ethical aspects, Life support systems (Critical care) -- Ethical aspects, Biological sciences, Health, Ethical aspects
Abstract

A war of words is being waged about whether physicians can refuse, unilaterally, to provide life support for patients who are hopelessly or terminally ill. For many years one scenario [...]

Published
1994

3. The baby in the body

Author

Fost, Norman and Purdy, Laura M.

Subjects
Childbirth -- Ethical aspects, Right to die -- Ethical aspects, Life support systems (Critical care) -- Ethical aspects, Biological sciences, Health, Ethical aspects
Abstract

On a wild December night Donna M, twenty years old, took the curve on River Road a little too fast. She hydroplaned into the oncoming lane and struck a car [...]

Published
1994

4. For them rather than by them

Author

Capron, Alexander Morgan

Subjects
Right to die -- Ethical aspects, Life support systems (Critical care) -- Ethical aspects, Biological sciences, Health, Ethical aspects
Abstract

When we do not know what forms of life support patients want and for how long, should we presume that they want all available means to keep them alive? If [...]

Published
1993

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