An enduring ethic of end of life care: Catholic health Australia's response to Victoria's 'voluntary assisted dying' act as participatory theological bioethics
On 19 June 2019, Victoria's 'Voluntary Assisted Dying' Act came into effect. The Act makes legal two interventions at the end of life. In most cases, it allows a doctor to prescribe a patient who meets certain criteria with a lethal substance, which it is supposed a patient will take...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2019, Volume: 96, Issue: 4, Pages: 458-472 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBS Australia; Oceania KDB Roman Catholic Church NCH Medical ethics |
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Health; Religious aspects; Christianity
B Patients; Care B Christian ethics; Biblical teaching B Terminal Care B Catholics |
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| Summary: | On 19 June 2019, Victoria's 'Voluntary Assisted Dying' Act came into effect. The Act makes legal two interventions at the end of life. In most cases, it allows a doctor to prescribe a patient who meets certain criteria with a lethal substance, which it is supposed a patient will take at a time and place of their choosing to end their life. In rarer cases, where a patient is unable to ingest the lethal substance, it also allows for a doctor to administer such a substance to the same end. In the Victorian legislation these interventions have been given the umbrella term of 'Voluntary Assisted Dying' (hereafter, 'VAD'). In Catholic ethics, as in most bioethical frameworks, these acts are referred to as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS-E). |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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