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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Main Author: Varelius, Jukka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: 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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