On the Moral Acceptability of Physician-Assisted Dying for Non-Autonomous Psychiatric Patients
Several authors have recently suggested that the suffering caused by mental illness could provide moral grounds for physician-assisted dying. Yet they typically require that psychiatric-assisted dying could come to question in the cases of autonomous, or rational, psychiatric patients only. Given th...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 227-233 |
IxTheo Classification: | NCH Medical ethics |
Further subjects: | B
psychiatric-assisted suicide
B Death B physician-assisted dying B Passive Euthanasia B Psychiatry |
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