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Traditional medical practice dictates that when patients are unable to eat or drink enough to sustain their basic nutritional requirements, artificial feeding and hydration is indicated. Common clinical examples of [...]

During the final days of his life, Oscar Wilde, aware that death was imminent, lost interest in food but drank whenever one of his visitors brought him a bottle. In [...]

The case presented for consideration concerns a "Mr. Stevens," a forty-nine year old man who received a severe head wound in an automobile accident. Various medical tests have been performed [...]

If I were requested to testify at trial as a "bioethical expert" my services would generally be contingent on two conditions. First, under ideal circumstances, I would prefer to be [...]

Moral reasoning in clinical decisionmaking does not consist of drawing formal deductions from invariable abstract principles. It requires discerning judgment that weighs the uncertainties, complexities, and probabilities that the facts [...]

The title of this article can be understood either as a legal or as an ethical question. It is treated only insofar as it is an ethical question--that is, a [...]

In this article, issues will be considered concerning the providing or withholding of nutrition and hydration to people who are permanently unconscious, that is, in irreversible coma or in a [...]

Is not the same as assisted suicide or euthanasia Over the past few decades the American legal system has repeatedly confronted the legal dilemmas of stopping treatment for patients in [...]