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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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
Anno: 2016, Volume: 30, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 227-233 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | NCH Etica della medicina |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
psychiatric-assisted suicide
B Death B physician-assisted dying B Passive Euthanasia B Psychiatry |
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| Riepilogo: | 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 that also non-autonomous psychiatric patients can sometimes suffer unbearably, this limitation appears questionable. In this article, I maintain that restricting psychiatric-assisted dying to autonomous, or rational, psychiatric patients would not be compatible with endorsing certain end-of-life practices commonly accepted in current medical ethics and law, practices often referred to as ‘passive euthanasia’. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12182 |